IF Browser error: /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat: invalid option --'C'

[jmasl7]

This is not necessarily a "bug" but what I was finding was that when I tried to use the 'IFS Browser' to list the files in my home directory it showed error "/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat: invalid option --'C'" and did NOT show any files.

After considerable investigation I eventually found out that this was caused by having a file named '-C' located in my home directory. Deleting that file made the error go away. I had almost certainly inadvertently created that file while trying to figure out how to use the QSH('touch ...') command with the -C option for CCSID.

I include this here in case anybody is searching for the same error message.

[chrjorgensen]

Yeah, C4i uses a lot of PASE / OSS utilies behind the scene, like stat, ls etc. The error you got is what your shell reports and is what you would see if you ran the same command in a terminal.

Glad you found the cause.

[jmasl7]

@chrjorgensen in this instance the VS Code extension is clearly executing the /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/stat command, if I understand correctly via an SSH session opened to the target AS/400, but is there any kind of log or debugging option which would show me exactly what command(s) was/were being executed?

[chrjorgensen]

@jmasl7 You see the commands executed in Output:

[jmasl7]

@jmasl7 You see the commands executed in Output:

Thanks!