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How can I remove that '@' character from the file permissions?

'@' in file permissions for Mac/OSX machines, is used to show that an extended attribute is set with this file.

  1. Tried chmod 755 galaxy-ansible.yml but that didn't help.
  2. Tried echo | chmod -E galaxy-ansible.yml, didn't help (even with using sudo).
  3. Tried xattr -d galaxy-ansible.yml, that didn't help either (even with using sudo).

I even did the above operations as root user, still '@' character is not going away from file's permissions.

[arun@MacBook-Pro-2 ~/aks/anisble] $ ls -l@ galaxy-ansible.yml 
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 arun  staff  270 Dec 22 12:31 galaxy-ansible.yml
    com.apple.quarantine     67

My ~/aks folder is mapped to a CentOS vagrant box and if I'm on the vagrant box, doing ls -l doesn't give me '@' (as it's not a Max/OSX machine):

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vagrant vagrant  270 Dec 22 00:12 galaxy-ansible.yml

On my Mac/OSX machine, there are other .yml files but those don't have '@' in the file permissions so I'm trying to remove '@' from galaxy-ansible.yml file (on Mac machine).

Right now the whole roles/.. folder has '@' character for any folder/files.

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 arun  staff  1132 Dec 21 17:12 README.md
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 arun  staff   102 Dec 21 17:12 defaults
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 arun  staff   102 Dec 21 17:12 handlers
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 arun  staff   136 Dec 21 17:12 meta
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 arun  staff   170 Dec 21 17:12 tasks
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 arun  staff   238 Dec 21 17:12 templates
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  • Possible duplicate of [How do I remove the "extended attributes" on a file in Mac OS X?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4833052/how-do-i-remove-the-extended-attributes-on-a-file-in-mac-os-x) – Frank Schmitt Dec 22 '16 at 20:02
  • @FrankSchmitt Thanks Frank. Using `xattr -c file` or `xattr -cr folder` fixed it. I didn't look good enough. – AKS Dec 22 '16 at 20:05
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    The way this question is phrased is helpful for a searcher that isn't familiar with the 'extended attributes' terminology (which is probably most people). So although it's a duplicate I found myself googling almost the identical question as phrased here and probably wouldn't have found the other question. – Brian Wylie Apr 16 '18 at 17:02

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The following commands helped in clearing the extended attribute at file / folder(recursive) level. 

xattr -c <yourfilename>

or 

xattr -cr <yourfoldername>
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  • This didn't remove the '@' character in the file permissions of a .net maui project on mac for me – fonzane Jan 29 '23 at 12:30