HATTRIB(1)

💖 HATTRIB(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to hattrib, a lil member of the hfsutils squad ✨ she's the one whose whole job is changing HFS file or directory attributes. type, creator, invisible, locked, blessed — she does the whole glow-up. let's get into it 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hattrib [-t TYPE] [-c CREA] [-|+i] [-|+l] hfs-path [...]

hattrib -b hfs-path

two whole forms, two whole vibes. pick ur fighter 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so hattrib lets you alter HFS file attributes. that's the whole gig. here's the tea on form one 👑

• the MacOS-defined type and creator attributes get set with the -t and -c flags respectively (yes bestie, in that order, type then creator, they're a matching set 🫶)
• a file's invisible flag? set it with +i, clear it with -i
• a file's locked flag? set it with +l, clear it with -l

and here's the part where you gotta pay attention fr fr: every single file you name on the command line gets those attributes, no questions asked — doesn't matter what attributes it already had, they're getting overwritten, no cap 💀. BUT — any attribute you didn't mention on the command line is left completely unchanged. so it's a targeted makeover, not a full reset ✨

now. form two 🌈

in the second form you pass a single HFS pathname that points at a folder, using the -b option, and that folder becomes "blessed" as the MacOS System Folder. iconic behavior honestly 👑

for that blessing to actually be useful, the folder should contain valid Macintosh System and Finder files. like, bless a folder with nothing in it and... girl, what are we doing 🙈

lowkey important note: the locked attribute and the "blessed" attribute have little consequence to hfsutils. so don't come crying to hfsutils about them, she simply does not care 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• hfsutils(1)
• hls(1)

go read those too, bestie, they're part of the family 🫶

🎀 FILES 🎀

• $HOME/.hcwd

that's where she keeps her current working directory lore ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

we stan 💖

and that's the whole page!! this one's from the <strong>HFSUTILS</strong> manual, dated <strong>30-Aug-1998</strong> — an absolute vintage queen, older than most of us but still serving ✨💅 mwah, bye bestie!! 🎀💖