Discussion:
bug#30597: Bug: error messages from gunzip
John Docherty
2018-02-24 20:39:57 UTC
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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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