It should just have been File not found without anything else by the logic presented in the article. However, there are some problems with entire thinking: -

It should just have been File not found without anything else by the logic presented in the article. However, there are some problems with entire thinking: - When you are looking into results of larger set of operation (i.e. scripts) you may need more info to easier grasp the context - Did you see it already ? There is no need for verbosity once you experienced a problem recently (which is what happens most of the time) The errors deserve both variants, short and terse, just not on the same place (I don't want spams in terminal or logs). Short variant should provide some form of id that can be looked at for more details: cat(e123): file not found e123 could be searched in detailed error message document.