umask per directory -

Some users insist on using bash. This is a good shell, but not as good as zsh. But, I do want them to be able to use the per directory umask as well as all the zsh users.

So I started digging, as the bash shell does not support a chpwd hook.

This is what I came up with:

chpwd()
{   # Set the initial umask
    case "${PWD}/"
    in
        /etc/puppet/*)
            um=$(umask)
            umask 007
        ;;
        *)
            [[ x"${um}" != x"" ]] && umask ${um}
        ;;
    esac
}
function cd()
{
    builtin cd "${@}"
    chpwd
}

Now, when I change to the directory /etc/puppet I do get a umask of 007 and when I cd somewhere else, I do get the original umask.

I do redefine the intercal cd command to run the chpwd hook. There must be a more elegant way to do this, but this does the job.

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