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Answer by Stéphane Chazelas for umask does not have -S option

Since umask changes the internal state of the shell, it has to be a shell builtin. POSIX shells umask builtin have a -S option as that's a POSIX requirement, but csh's doesn't. Your umask man page...

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umask does not have -S option

I'm trying to use umask -S to show the current mask in symbolic form (per man umask on my system, which gives me the page BASH_BUILTINS(1)). But umask doesn't seem to behave as the manpage claims:...

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