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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm using gunzip 1.5 on Amazon Linux 2017.03. When running gunzip /nonexistent/*gz, the error message from gunzip is very= misleading: gzip: /nonexistent/*gz.gz: No such file or directory It's misleadng in two ways: 1. it refers to gzip, when I was running gunzip 2. it refers to a file specification that I did not provide, by naively app= ending .gz to the file spec Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry. Thanks, John --_000_CO2PR11MB00552EE7184B21082117E23789C30CO2PR11MB0055namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi,

I'm using gunzip 1.5 on Amazon Linux 2017.03.

When running gunzip /nonexistent/*gz, the error message from gunzip is very= misleading: gzip:  /nonexistent/*gz.gz: No such file or direc= tory

It's misleadng in two ways:

1. it refers to gzip, when I was running gunzip
2. it refers to a file specification that I did not provide, by naively app= ending .gz to the file spec

Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry.

Thanks,
John

--_000_CO2PR11MB00552EE7184B21082117E23789C30CO2PR11MB0055namp_-- From unknown Mon Aug 18 22:11:55 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Entity 5.505) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: John Docherty Subject: bug#30597: closed (Re: Bug: error messages from gunzip) Message-ID: References: X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 30597 X-Gnu-PR-Package: gzip Reply-To: 30597@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:53:02 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1648662782-16800-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1648662782-16800-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #30597: Bug: error messages from gunzip which was filed against the gzip package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 30597@debbugs.gnu.org. --=20 30597: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D30597 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems ------------=_1648662782-16800-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 30597-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Mar 2022 17:52:07 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36880 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nZcUJ-0004Lp-Bi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:52:07 -0400 Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:55194) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nZcUH-0004LH-L9 for 30597-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:52:06 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9D016007E; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id KoNrukf6CFfS; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A54F16008E; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 1OTwXJ1oxAfn; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-172-91-119-151.socal.res.rr.com [172.91.119.151]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 636A016007E; Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:51:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 Content-Language: en-US To: John Docherty From: Paul Eggert Subject: Re: Bug: error messages from gunzip Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 30597-done Cc: 30597-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > When running gunzip /nonexistent/*gz, the error message from gunzip is very misleading: gzip: /nonexistent/*gz.gz: No such file or directory > > It's misleadng in two ways: > > 1. it refers to gzip, when I was running gunzip Yes, gunzip merely calls "gzip -d", so the message is coming from from gzip which does what it does regardless of who calls it. > 2. it refers to a file specification that I did not provide, by naively appending .gz to the file spec Yes, that's what gzip -d does: if you say "gzip -d foo" it wants to decompress foo.gz because "foo" doesn't end in ".gz". In your case the file name was "/nonexistent/*gz" and since that doesn't end in ".gz" it looked for "/nonexistent/*gz.gz" and didn't find it. > Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry. Yes, that sounds right. 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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm using gunzip 1.5 on Amazon Linux 2017.03. When running gunzip /nonexistent/*gz, the error message from gunzip is very= misleading: gzip: /nonexistent/*gz.gz: No such file or directory It's misleadng in two ways: 1. it refers to gzip, when I was running gunzip 2. it refers to a file specification that I did not provide, by naively app= ending .gz to the file spec Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry. Thanks, John --_000_CO2PR11MB00552EE7184B21082117E23789C30CO2PR11MB0055namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi,

I'm using gunzip 1.5 on Amazon Linux 2017.03.

When running gunzip /nonexistent/*gz, the error message from gunzip is very= misleading: gzip:  /nonexistent/*gz.gz: No such file or direc= tory

It's misleadng in two ways:

1. it refers to gzip, when I was running gunzip
2. it refers to a file specification that I did not provide, by naively app= ending .gz to the file spec

Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry.

Thanks,
John

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