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stat exits 0 on file-not-found


From: Seth Johnson
Subject: stat exits 0 on file-not-found
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:22:02 -0400
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Using coreutils-4.5.3-26,

stat foo

(where file foo does not exist)

exits 0.

Quote:

address@hidden sjohnson]$ stat foo
stat: cannot stat `foo': No such file or directory
address@hidden sjohnson]$ echo $?
0

I would expect it to exit 1.

Thanks,
Seth Johnson




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