Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories

2017-09-04 Thread Jonny Grant
Hello Greg! On 29/08/17 16:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:40:54PM +0300, Jonny Grant wrote: (B) is good, but (A) and (C) are problematic below. A) $ cd missingdir bash: cd: missingdir: No such file or directory How is this a problem? It seems completely clear to me. It

Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories

2017-09-04 Thread 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 str