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In an environment where the default umask is 0077 or similar, the pip utility for installing python libraries can set up new files that cannot be read by all users. I dropped this script into my ~/bin dir so I can enforce other-read permissions easily on all the python libs. I wrote this script after hours and hours of troubleshooting python libs just to find out it's an old-school permissions issue. #!/bin/sh # File: /usr/local/bin/set-readable-python-libs worldreadpythonlibs_version="2019-05-31a" for word in /usr/{local/,}lib{,64}/python* ; do find ${word} ! -perm -o+rX -exec chmod g+rX,o+rX {} + 2>/dev/null done https://gist.github.com/bgstack15/b435b1120192a7dcbd032583e0ade46e