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New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 00:42
Alright, so I've been having an enormous amount of trouble with file permissions lately (rather self-imposed, unfortunately).
For many of my files, "ls -l" has been giving me modes such as -rwxr-xr-x@
Anyone have a clue what the "@" means?
UpwardThrust
31-05-2008, 00:46
Alright, so I've been having an enormous amount of trouble with file permissions lately (rather self-imposed, unfortunately).
For many of my files, "ls -l" has been giving me modes such as -rwxr-xr-x@
Anyone have a clue what the "@" means?
@ normally specifies a symbolic link type
New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 00:53
@ normally specifies a symbolic link type
Doesn't that show after the file path when -F is specified?
UpwardThrust
31-05-2008, 00:56
Doesn't that show after the file path when -F is specified?
Hmmm I thought the version on FreeBSD did that before on the -l but its been awhile
You are right on all my linux systems
New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 01:01
You are right on all my linux systems
And I'm running OS X. :D
UpwardThrust
31-05-2008, 01:01
And I'm running OS X. :D
Hmmmm maybe I should go find my freeBSD virtual lol might be closer
Myrmidonisia
31-05-2008, 01:23
Do a 'man' on ls?
In OSX, the '@' does represent a symbolic link. maybe ls -l includes -F?
UpwardThrust
31-05-2008, 01:25
Do a 'man' on ls?
In OSX, the '@' does represent a symbolic link. maybe ls -l includes -F?
Hmmm thought so ... older versions of freebsd used to do it (4.10 or so) but its been a LONG time
New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 04:48
If this is the case, then half my files are symbolic links leading nowhere. Great.
UpwardThrust
31-05-2008, 04:50
If this is the case, then half my files are symbolic links leading nowhere. Great.
Well I dont know what you are looking at but that is the 1 biggest thing that pissed me off CLI mac
They symbolic link like EVERYTHING was a pain in the ass the few times I scripted for them
New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 04:53
Well I dont know what you are looking at but that is the 1 biggest thing that pissed me off CLI mac
They symbolic link like EVERYTHING was a pain in the ass the few times I scripted for them
This is a recent problem for me. A little superuser mistake on my part. I accidentally left out a '~' in a certain path, shall we say.
Damn ACLs. Damn them all to hell. THEY are the source of my troubles.
The Alma Mater
31-05-2008, 07:45
Damn ACLs. Damn them all to hell. THEY are the source of my troubles.
Correct. Next time just limit yourself to chmod.
New Malachite Square
31-05-2008, 22:34
Correct. Next time just limit yourself to chmod.
To be fair, the ACL accident was the Finder's fault. chmod was how I tried to fix my ACL problems, which, obviously, didn't work.
:rolleyes:@self