GNU bug report logs - #80158
incorrect diagnostic from ed

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy <at> dartmouth.edu>

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 22:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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bug#80158; Package coreutils. (Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:22:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy <at> dartmouth.edu>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: incorrect diagnostic from ed
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 17:21:01 -0500

Bug exhibited by ed version 1.22.2:

If FILE is not a directory, the shell command
    ed FILE/
yields an incorrect diagnostic, "Is a directory".

Most, if not all, other utilities yield "No such file or directory".
Reply sent to Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy <at> dartmouth.edu>
Cc: bug-ed <at> gnu.org
Subject: Fwd: bug#80158: incorrect diagnostic from ed
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 15:04:54 -0800

Thanks for the bug report. Forwarding it to <bug-ed <at> gnu.org>, and 
closing the coreutils bug.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: bug#80158: incorrect diagnostic from ed
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 17:21:01 -0500
From: Douglas McIlroy
To: 80158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org

Bug exhibited by ed version 1.22.2:

If FILE is not a directory, the shell command
    ed FILE/
yields an incorrect diagnostic, "Is a directory".

Most, if not all, other utilities yield "No such file or directory".
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