title: Mac OSX file permissions has '@' - how to remove that '@'
body: <p>How can I remove that '@' character from the file permissions? </p>
  
  <p>'<strong>@</strong>' in file permissions for Mac/OSX machines, is used to show that an extended attribute is set with this file.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Tried <code>chmod 755 galaxy-ansible.yml</code> but that didn't help. </li>
  <li>Tried    <code>echo | chmod -E galaxy-ansible.yml</code>, didn't help (even with using <code>sudo</code>).</li>
  <li>Tried <code>xattr -d  galaxy-ansible.yml</code>, that didn't help either (even with using <code>sudo</code>).</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I even did the above operations as <strong>root</strong> user, still '@' character is not going away from file's permissions.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[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 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My ~/aks folder is mapped to a CentOS vagrant box and if I'm on the vagrant box, doing <code>ls -l</code> doesn't give me '@' (as it's not a Max/OSX machine):</p>
  
  <pre><code>-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vagrant vagrant  270 Dec 22 00:12 galaxy-ansible.yml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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).</p>
  
  <p>Right now the whole roles/.. folder has '@' character for any folder/files.</p>
  
  <pre><code>-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
  </code></pre>