GNU bug report logs - #30597
Bug: error messages from gunzip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: John Docherty <john_docherty <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:52:01 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: John Docherty <john_docherty <at> hotmail.com>
To: "bug-gzip <at> gnu.org" <bug-gzip <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Bug: error messages from gunzip
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:39:57 +0000

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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 appending .gz to the file spec

Doubtless you have bigger fish to fry.

Thanks,
John


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