29 Apr
2005
29 Apr
'05
05:51
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 7:44 PM, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote: snip.
Hello Greg. Think it's me you want to write to ?. No reason for being sorry. I have read that about man umask, but I need to go deeper to start. I think the & is for octal, and when you write it down on a piece of paper as ones and zeros you'll get the result. Its a matter of adding/subtracting binaries ?.
Erik Jakobsen
Of course you're right. I saw that ~ sign when I read it, but I was thinking 066 & 022 would be 644. I just did it on a piece of paper and, just as you say, it's 066 & ~022 = 066 & 055 = 644. I knew that was the default for new files, but I didn't realize it was implemented via umask that way. Greg Wallace