Should ipfs cat dirhash work?

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From @satyamakgec on Fri Mar 17 2017 06:46:06 GMT+0000 (UTC)

When ipfs cat ‘any-dirhash’ is performed I get the following error : Error: this dag node is a directory
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Copied from original issue: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/240

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From @whyrusleeping on Fri Mar 17 2017 08:48:41 GMT+0000 (UTC)

@satyamakgec This goes back to very old ‘unix holy wars’. In BSD systems, you can cat a directory, and get raw directory information. On linux, this is not the case. We have chosen to take the linux style approach, though I don’t disagree with the other camp

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From @satyamakgec on Fri Mar 17 2017 10:22:13 GMT+0000 (UTC)

@whyrusleeping so what i have to do to get rid of it