Stupid.mkdir -r test.mkdir test.Read your gnu manual to solve your digital illiteracy. 2020년 5월 2일 토요일 오전 12시 17분 45초 GMT+9, Jonny Grant 작성: Hello! Can this error message be clarified? The directory already exists, it is not a file. lib/mkdir-p.c:200 contains this line of code that triggers below:- error (0, mkdir_errno, _("cannot create directory %s"), quote (dir)); As it's easy enough to know that the reason mkdir fails is because 'test' a directory that already exists. Easy enough to check with stat() and S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode) Can this be changed? Maybe I can make a patch for it. Jonny $ mkdir test $ mkdir test mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists $ mkdir --version mkdir (GNU coreutils) 8.28 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David MacKenzie. $