where is the file for setting new file permissions?

[Todd Zullinger]

linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> I want to change the automatic file permissions that are 
> created on new files.  Where is the file that lets me do 
> that?  A lot of googling got my a lot of information but 
> none of it answered my question.
> 
> I want to have all new files set to 644 = rw-r--r--

You want to set umask to 0022.  You can set this in ~/.bashrc like so:

umask 0022

It is set to 0002 in /etc/bashrc for normal users.

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