[KLUG Members] umask

[Bruce Smith]

> i just can't get it to my head, right now i am learning about umask, could
> someone tell me a better way to understand how it function

The bits in umask are permission bits that are turned _off_ from the
default permissions when creating a file.

Some of the other man pages for umask explain it better than the
bash-builtin documentation.  See:  umask(2), umask(3p) and umask(1p)

 - BS