nfdump -M aborting on missing time buckets about nfdump HOT 3 CLOSED

In your series of input files, -M .. compiles a list of profile directories to be combine with -R ... file list. In order to validate the user input, and to compile a valid file list with potential sub dirs, the first file as well as the last file in the first profile must exist in order to prepare a valid file filter. Otherwise the file list may be invalid and could invalid results are returned. This means the files in the first profile of -M needs to exist in order to build a valid file filter.

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Iirc When I do the expanded profile method (not the @ expansion you added). The query works, just get the stat warning for the missing file which is fine as expected and doesn't abort.

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The order of the expansion is system dependant - it could be alphabetically but need not to be. If by accident the first profile is the one, missing the files, you end up the same.

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