What command can you use to quickly find which file on your home folder containing the umask command?

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$ grep -rnw "umask" ~

What do you mean exactly by "containing umask command"? You mean with the default permission set by umask? By default it'd be umask 022, resulting in file permissions 755. — M. Becerra, May 24 '18 at 09:05

pLumo · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24T09:15:48.043

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The pattern in grep is placed in front of the file/path:

grep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [FILE...]

To receive just the matching filenames instead of the matches, you should use -l option:

grep -rlw "umask" ~

If you want all matches of all files including their line number, you need to use -n instead of -l:

grep -rnw "umask" ~

edited May 24 '18 at 09:15

answered May 24 '18 at 09:08

pLumo

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