bug#80158: Fwd: bug#80158: incorrect diagnostic from ed

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Jan 2026 15:04:54 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the bug report. Forwarding it to <[email protected]>, and 
closing the coreutils bug.

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Subject: bug#80158: incorrect diagnostic from ed
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 17:21:01 -0500
From: Douglas McIlroy
To: [email protected]

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".