macOS xattr attributes
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What is a file attribute? #I will probably push an open door, but a file system has attributes on the files. In particular, the read, write and execute of each file and this for the different groups:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kelvas users 5120 Jul 09 04:30 sample.txt But these attributes were not enough for many cases. So an extension was added to the inodes to allow more functionality on the files: the extended attributes or xattr.