Re: umask builtin

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 05:06:36PM +0100, kalle wrote:
> Am 08.11.2017 um 14:55 schrieb DJ Mills:
> > From umask(1p):
> >   For a symbolic_mode value, the new value of the file mode creation mask
> >   shall be the logical complement of the file permission bits portion  of
> >   the file mode specified by the symbolic_mode string.
> 
> This sentence is inacceptably complicate. Furthermore, it is not clear
> which symbolic mode string is meant at the end of the sentence, but I
> suppose it has been written by you to undermine the given facts.

The (1p) means that this is directly from POSIX.  It is a POSIX man
page.

If you're on a Debian system, you can read it by doing this:

apt-get install manpages-posix
man 1p umask

Ask your OS support how to do the equivalent on other OSes, or try
searching for them via Google.  I'm sure they can be found online
somewhere.