GNU bug report logs - #62497
maybe date -f <directory> should generate an error

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre <at> debian.org>

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:17:04 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: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre <at> debian.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: maybe date -f <directory> should generate an error
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:44:40 +0200

Hello

The usual case is:

$ echo "2023-03-27 08:30:00" > dates.txt
$ echo "2023-04-01 12:00:00" >> dates.txt

$ /usr/bin/date -f dates.txt
Mon Mar 27 08:30:00 CEST 2023
Sat Apr 1 12:00:00 CEST 2023

If done on a non existing file, we get:

$ date -f non-existing
/usr/bin/date: non-existing: No such file or directory

Maybe it should do the same on a directory:

 $ /usr/bin/date -f /
doesn't show anything and return 0

Cheers,
Sylvestre
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