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Old 09-22-2006
umask with find

Hi,
Will umask work with find command ?

I was trying to do

find /newdir/apps/ -type d -name 'par' -print -exec umask 117 {} \;

it returns with

find: umask: Permission denied ,

I've checked permission of all the directores, they have 770.

however, If I use the command

find /newdir/apps/ -type d -name 'par' -print | umask 117 it works

any reasons why, Is that
# 2  
Old 09-22-2006
What is the intended function of those statements? Both of them look useless. I suspect umask isn't what you think it is.
# 3  
Old 09-25-2006
I would like to change certain directories UMASK, so that whatever file created under them, the will have 660 privilege , umask wont help here ??
# 4  
Old 09-25-2006
umask is not specific to induvisual directories. Here's what the manual says:

The umask utility sets the file mode creation mask of the
current shell execution environment to the value specified
by the mask operand.
# 5  
Old 09-25-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yogesh Sawant
umask is not specific to induvisual directories. Here's what the manual says:

The umask utility sets the file mode creation mask of the
current shell execution environment to the value specified
by the mask operand.
thanks a lot !!
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