Terminal redirect output to file permission

Hi!

I'm having a weird issue that I just can't wrap my head around and it's causing me issues further down the line. When I try to do the following in the terminal, in my own user home directory:


I am getting the file permission like this:


Is it possible to change this default file permission?

The issue that I'm trying to solve when using browserify my permissions are never executable even though the input files are.. even when supplying the -o output parameter the file still gets the same permission as above.

Are you talking about this: Browserify
Not familiar with that however is there a reason you cant do a chmod on the file to give it permissions?
Maybe in a script?

Cradom, yes, it is kind of part of a script - but more because it is part of a larger pipe of scripts and will in end end reload the generated file in my web browser - which will fail if I get the rights on the file above.

I guess I could work around it and modify the permissions inside the script, but only as a last resort. What is it that decides the permissions when doing a output redirection like this?

mYonder said:

What is it that decides the permissions when doing a output redirection like this?

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IIRC, it's the umask that determines the default permissions of the directory. However, I wouldn't change that for the purposes of a script and would, instead, recommend what cradom did - change the permissions of the specific file in the script itself.

I agree, change it in the script. You need to change it from the default, 644, to 755, which is read,write and execute, or -rwxr--r--.
chmod 755 filename
I tried creating a file using touch, got the same permissions, so it's the default.