Re: [stat] : Bad return code.

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
>   This email just to signal that the "/usr/bin/stat" command in version
> 5.2.1 of "coreutils" do have a return code equal to 0 even if the file
> argument given do not exist. Is that normal  ?

Thanks for the report.
That's been fixed for some time.
You really should upgrade.  5.2.1 is over 3 years old.

The latest release is here:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz