The ctags command doesn't recurse saying “it is not a regular file”

Question

When I run ctags -R *, I get errors saying that all directories are not regular files and it skips them instead of recursively generating tags for them.

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Answer 1

It occurs if you have elvis-tools installed . remove them with something like

sudo apt-get remove elvis-tools 

and then install exuberant-ctags by

sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags