what is "umask"?

Answer Posted / shajahan

umask stands for user file creation mask, the term mask
implying which permissions to mask or hide. The umask value
tells Unix which of the three permissions are to be denied
rather than granted. The current value of umask can be
easily determined by Command: $umask

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