Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories

[Jonny Grant]

On 29/08/17 16:35, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/29/17 8:40 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Could bash have some better handling of ENOENT for directories that don't
> > exist and files that don't exist?
>
> Better than the error message the OS associates with that errno? The one
> that comes straight from strerror()?

Hi Chet, yes perhaps like GNU Objdump does:


$ objdump -d missing.elf
objdump: 'missing.elf': No such file

$ objdump -d mydir
objdump: Warning: 'mydir' is not an ordinary file

Cheers, Jonny