[Geany-devel] file attributes on a linux system

[Lex Trotman]

On 4 April 2012 19:42, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 18:52, worthspending <worthspending at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ya know, I really don't even want to ask as I don't want to be a pest, but,
>> I haven't found a good example of setting the umask prior to launching
>> geany.  I would like to set the umask and  have it tied to geany only.  I
>> run a lot of unattended processes, so, the line of thinking is if I make
>> some type of global change I could introduce a problem to another program.
>>
>> I can confirm that the "save as" feature works as described in this thread.
>>  No +x attribute on the saved file.
>
> Hi,
>
> In relation to your question, just do:
>
> umask 666; geany


Ahhh, make that

umask 111; geany

because umask is the bits you *don't* want, allways got that wrong.

Cheers
Lex