I couldn't reproduce the problem anymore, in either Terminal or Konsole (both
are CLI terminal emulators), so either it's gone or it's intermittent. We can
treat this bug as closed unless and until I make a new version of this report.
I don't know of a difference in circumstances unless it's
On 8/11/20 3:03 PM, Nick Levinson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
I don't know what an example transcript is
Ah, I was asking for the output of a shell session (or however you invoked
'mkdir'). The idea is that we would like to reproduce the bug, and need a recipe
to do that.
If
I don't know why my bug report appeared twice with the same bug number, but the
version answered by Paul Eggert was incomplete, so I'm not surprised that he
didn't understand. To answer: The point about hidden files is that I knew the
directory did not exist before I executed mkdir because I
On 8/10/20 11:48 AM, Nick Levinson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
When I use mkdir, when it succeeds sometimes it has no message, which is
acceptable, but sometimes it says this:
mkdir: cannot create directory '': File exists
But the directory didn't exist before I used mkdir to make it,
