Manfred Morgner wrote:
Hello all, the manual page of GNU gzip says: Exit status is normally 0; if an error occurs, exit status is 1. If a warning occurs, exit status is 2. This is not the case sind version >1.5 for the situation when the source file already ends with .gz Test: $ gzip 2018.gz gzip: 2018.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged $ echo $? 0
Why is this a bug? Arguably no error has occurred.