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change locked attribute from the shell
Authored by: leen on Dec 30, '02 05:13:02PM

If you ever encounter locked files you may prefer chflags(1)
to unlock them instead of using 'Get Info' from the finder.



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change locked attribute from the shell
Authored by: cynikal on Dec 31, '02 06:59:38PM

yah i was going to say this too..

but i was also going to say that this is not a new mac thing..

this has been around in the *bsd world for a while ;-) (and in linux via the chattr command)

OS X just happens to provide a nice gui way to enable/disable this.

the other chflags are pretty useful too (like append-only mode).. i find it great to set on my .bash_history file so i have a record of all the commands i ever typed.



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