#2840·gulp

ENOENT on nonexistant glob directory with gulp v5.0.1

Author: bpfosterCreated Jun 2, 2025Updated Sep 10, 2025

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What were you expecting to happen?

src glob on nonexistent directory to successfully no-op.

What actually happened?

An ENOENT error was thrown.

Please give us a sample of your gulpfile

javascript
const { src, dest } = require('gulp');

function defaultTask(cb) {
  return src('input/*.js')
    .pipe(dest('output/'));
}

exports.default = defaultTask

Terminal output / screenshots

bash
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/project/input'

Please provide the following information:

  • OS & version [e.g. MacOS Catalina 10.15.4]: RHEL 8
  • node version (run node -v): 24.0.1
  • npm version (run npm -v): 11.3.0
  • gulp version (run gulp -v): 5.0.1

Additional information

On attempting to upgrade from gulp v5.0.0 to v5.0.1, an error is thrown that was not thrown before.

In v5.0.0, if the parent directory of the glob didn't exist, nothing was copied and the gulp build proceeded without error.

In v5.0.1, an ENOENT error is now thrown, breaking the build.