On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote: > and 'umask -S' will show the current mask. > > (I don't know if this works for all versions of umask, but at least on > most Linuxes.) > umask is a shell builtin. I tried umask -S with all the shells that I could find on my system. Worked with bash, ash, zsh, ksh. Didn't work with csh. bye :) Anmol