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Viewing the permissions history

For example I am creating a file with 646 mode and then later I changed to 767 mode .after some time I want to see what was the initial permission mode .
Here it's 646.. Can we retrieve this info from anywhere ?
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Not unless you make special provisions, by storing the old permissions somewhere first, or by creating a backup or snapshot, for example..

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