--- Greg Chicares <chicares@...> wrote:
> I read here
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/fileutils/html_node/fileutils_41.html
> that
> "It is not an error if a name is already a directory; mkdir simply
> proceeds. But if a name is an existing file and is anything but a
> directory, mkdir complains."
>
-8<-
>
> So I'm guessing that the fileutils manual is wrong. Correct?
>

I'd say the manual is wrong. Linux gives the "file exists" error.

Cheers,

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