A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1119 ====================================================================== Reported By: mhjacobson Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 Issue ID: 1119 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: Matt Jacobson Organization: User Reference: Section: file Page Number: 0 Line Number: 0 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2017-02-15 01:48 UTC Last Modified: 2017-02-21 12:06 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: When the file named by the <file> operand does not exist, `file` should not exit with zero status ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0003564) joerg (reporter) - 2017-02-21 12:06 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1119#c3564 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Besides the fact that such a change could break existing scripts, file's task is to return information about the path name and: LC_ALL=C file /tmp/missing /tmp/missing: cannot open: No such file or directory may be seen as "information" about the path in question. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson New Issue 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Status New => Under Review 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Assigned To => ajosey 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Name => Matt Jacobson 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Section => file 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Page Number => 0 2017-02-15 01:48 mhjacobson Line Number => 0 2017-02-21 01:55 Vincent LefevreNote Added: 0003563 2017-02-21 12:06 joerg Note Added: 0003564 ======================================================================
