# git-send-email: Skipping - not found.

3 messages from 2008-04-28 to 2008-04-29. Participants: Timur Tabi, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13314

## Timur Tabi, 2008-04-28 21:15

Subject: git-send-email: Skipping - not found.
Message-ID: <48163E6C.60104@freescale.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48163E6C.60104%40freescale.com

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When I issue this command:

git-send-email  --from Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> --suppress-cc=all --to
timur@tabi.org --smtp-server remotesmtp.freescale.net
0001--PATCH-Update-CS4270-driver-to-ASoC-V2.patch

I get this output:

Skipping  - not found.
0001--PATCH-Update-CS4270-driver-to-ASoC-V2.patch
OK. Log says:
Server: remotesmtp.freescale.net
MAIL FROM:<timur@freescale.com>
RCPT TO:<timur@tabi.org>
From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: timur@tabi.org
Subject: [PATCH] Update CS4270 driver to ASoC V2
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:13:34 -0500
Message-Id: <1209417214-17376-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>
X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.5

Result: 250 2.0.0 m3SLDY4k005131 Message accepted for delivery


I don't know enough about Perl to debug this, but I presume the problem is in
this code:

for my $f (@ARGV) {
	if (-d $f) {
		opendir(DH,$f)
			or die "Failed to opendir $f: $!";

		push @files, grep { -f $_ } map { +$f . "/" . $_ }
				sort readdir(DH);

	} elsif (-f $f) {
		push @files, $f;

	} else {
		print STDERR "Skipping $f - not found.\n";
	}
}

My guess is that "$f", at some point, is an empty string or a blank space.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

```

## Jeff King, 2008-04-29 20:06

Subject: Re: git-send-email: Skipping - not found.
Message-ID: <20080429200619.GA20509@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080429200619.GA20509%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <48163E6C.60104@freescale.com>

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:15:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

> When I issue this command:
> 
> git-send-email  --from Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> --suppress-cc=all --to
> timur@tabi.org --smtp-server remotesmtp.freescale.net
> 0001--PATCH-Update-CS4270-driver-to-ASoC-V2.patch

Surely that is not the command you issued, since it lacks shell quoting
around your name and email address.

> I don't know enough about Perl to debug this, but I presume the problem is in
> this code:
> [...]
> for my $f (@ARGV) {
> [...]
> 		print STDERR "Skipping $f - not found.\n";

Yes, that is what is producing the error message. But that is the first
time we ever look at @ARGV, let alone modify it. So the error is almost
certainly caused by a blank argument being passed on the command line.
And we can't debug that unless you show us the exact shell invocation
that was used.

-Peff

```

## Timur Tabi, 2008-04-29 20:09

Subject: Re: git-send-email: Skipping - not found.
Message-ID: <4817807F.9020508@freescale.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4817807F.9020508%40freescale.com
In-Reply-To: <20080429200619.GA20509@sigill.intra.peff.net>

```
Jeff King wrote:

>> git-send-email  --from Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> --suppress-cc=all --to
>> timur@tabi.org --smtp-server remotesmtp.freescale.net
>> 0001--PATCH-Update-CS4270-driver-to-ASoC-V2.patch
> 
> Surely that is not the command you issued, since it lacks shell quoting
> around your name and email address.

You're right.  It's the output from an "echo" command in a shell script, which
likes to remove quotation marks.  I keep forgetting that it does that.

> Yes, that is what is producing the error message. But that is the first
> time we ever look at @ARGV, let alone modify it. So the error is almost
> certainly caused by a blank argument being passed on the command line.

Right again!  I did a more through check of the command-line arguments, and I am
sending '' as one argument on the command line.

I just rewrote my script so that it doesn't ever send a null argument.  Thanks
for the help.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

```