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From: | Jonny Grant |
Subject: | bug#23263: cat: missingfile: No such file or directory |
Date: | Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:43:32 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 |
HelloI noticed that cat doesn't have an accurate message in the following use-case:
$ cat missingfile cat: missingfile: No such file or directory $ mkdir testdir $ cat testdir cat: testdir: Is a directory I wrote up the details of the ENOENT problem here: http://technoramauk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/enoent-considered-harmful.htmlPlease keep my email address in any replies as I am not on this mailing list.
Cheers, Jonny
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