Hundreds of .h files on mac ????

Swift66

I was seaching for a pdf on my mac and the search returned 338 .h files in March alone. More in February. WTF are these?

irishbuzz

They're C or C++ header files. You must have some programs installed on the machine using them.

cython

Swift66 wrote: »

I was seaching for a pdf on my mac and the search returned 338 .h files in March alone. More in February. WTF are these?

.h files are typically source files (specifically header files) from C or C++ and related languages. Not entirely uncommon to find them on *nix OSes (of which Mac OS is one), though I don't know if they are normally there on Mac without having xcode or gcc or similar installed.

If you know at which paths they reside it might inform better, but the timestamps could stem from an update or something?

JoyPad

They are C++ header files. Have you downloaded source code for something? Maybe a Linux kernel?

cantalach

JoyPad wrote: »

They are C++ header files. Have you downloaded source code for something? Maybe a Linux kernel?

Some of them have an Apple copyright notice so it's not the Linux kernel.