A file attribute refers to a characteristic or property of a file that defines its behavior, accessibility, or other properties. It is essentially metadata that provides information about the file, ...

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A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

How file attributes are declared depends on the source host at which the transport file is created and on the transfer method used. For details about setting file attributes for these hosts, see the ...