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Genuity, Burlington, MA
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: >how can i make the default for my shell-environment to be such that when
: >i create a new file (ie, touch
: ><filename>; vi <filename>) it is executable? as far as i can tell, umask doesn't
: >allow this behavior.

: There's no way to do this in standard Unix.  The program that creates the
: file decides which permissions to turn on by default, and umask specifies
: which of them to turn off.  Programs that are designed to create executable
: files (mainly compilers and linkers) and directories include the executable
: bits in their default permissions, and just about everything else doesn't.

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: Genuity, Burlington, MA
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Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive

#!/bin/ksh

Then you can do "mytouch filename" to create executable files; it won't
cause "vi filename" to create executables, but you could create a "myvi"
script that does that.

                               Chris Mattern

I really don't think you would want that as default behaviour.

I use the following shell script to edit shell scripts:

#!/bin/sh
# create and edit a shell script

if [ "$1" ]
then
    if [ ! -s $1 ]
    then
        echo "#!/bin/sh" > $1
    fi
    chmod a+x $1
    ${EDITOR:-emacs} $1
fi

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