Re: [Help-bash] How to safely work on files/dirs with .

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 11:31:13AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> And then the setting of umask is not involved in the result.
> Especially because some people have umask 027 set causing a result
> other than what I want to have happen.

This is why I just use the octal value I want.  If I want 644 then I
chmod 644.  I find the letter-based alternatives confusing, and I have
to convert them mentally to the octal form to try to figure out what
they're going to do.