GNU bug report logs - #23263
cat: missingfile: No such file or directory

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>
To: 23263 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23263: cat: missingfile: No such file or directory
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:43:32 +0100

Hello

I 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.html

Please keep my email address in any replies as I am not on this mailing 
list.

Cheers, Jonny
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