Professor Donald E. Knuth, Author of the Holy “The Art of Computer
Programming” books and Creator of the Powerful Document Preparation
Tool, LaTeX. URL: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
One Day One Command
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umask — Default file-creation permission mask.
Summary:
umask is used to set the default permission for files, which is
created by the user. To get the actual default permissions, the
mask should be XOR-ed with 0666 for files and 0777 for folders.
For example, if umask is 0002, then (0002 ^ 0666) = 0664 is the
default permission for files.