Umask Command in Linux

Posted by linuxize on Jul 4, 2019 5:06 PM EDT
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On Linux and Unix operating systems, all new files are created with a default set of permissions. The umask utility allows you to view or to set the file mode creation mask, which determines the permissions bits for newly created files or directories.

It is used by mkdir, touch, tee and other commands that create new files and directories.

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