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in thread Setting permissions as text file is created

Not to be terribly nitpicky but the file permissions (at least on the *nixes I've used) don't have any control over wether or not you can delete the file. You need write permissions on the directory the file is in to delete it. i.e. 
% ls -al
total 12
   4 drwxr-xr-x    2 notme     notmygroup         4096 Mar 17 11:12 ./
   4 drwxr-xr-x  101 me   mygroup        4096 Mar 17 11:12 ../
   4 -rw-rw-rw-    1 me   mygroup          42 Mar 17 11:12 foo.foo

% rm foo.foo
rm: cannot remove `foo.foo': Permission denied

% sudo chmod 777 .
% rm foo.foo

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Re: Setting permissions as text file is created
by Hissingsid (Sexton) on Mar 17, 2004 at 17:22 UTC
    Hi, Thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion. I've learned a lot.

    I've decided to use the umask method suggested and would like to thank Bart for providing the example code snippet.

    Best wishes

    Sid
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      My mistake. You're correct. To delete the file you need to have write access to the directory which holds the file.
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