Umask?

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

$ /bin/bash
$ type umask
umask is a shell builtin


Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

>Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default
>permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which
>appeared to not be installed on my Debian box.  So I plugged it into
>Debian's search page, and got essentially nothing.  Is "umask" not used in
>Linux?  Has it been deprecated?  If so, what was it replaced with?  Etc.,
>etc., etc...
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Ken
>
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