[ale] Specify permissions, owner, and group of newly created files

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Rick Huebner wrote:
> I've always wondered how to make new files created in a directory be created
> with a specific permission, owner, and group.  Right now, I have a series of
> cron jobs that run to change the permissions in several directories each
> hour.  Is there any way on a per directory basis to do this?

There's a number of ways to deal with this, from setting the perms on 
the directories to using the umask command.  Check out:

man chmod
man umask

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