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The umask keyword

umask sets the umask for the process to EXPRESSION, and it returns the previous value. Without EXPRESSION, it only returns the current umask. The permission bits of rwxr-x--- is represented as three octal digits.

Syntax

  umask EXPRESSION
  umask
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