From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 31 18:27:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26775 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:27:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26767 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:27:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29537; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:57:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA08019; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:57:08 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980201125708.32249@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:57:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: laszlo vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rehash missing References: <199802010149.TAA01057@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199802010149.TAA01057@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>; from laszlo vagner on Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 07:49:23PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 07:49:23PM -0600, laszlo vagner wrote: > after cvsuping to -stable i have no "rehash" command. How do you determine this? rehash was never a program, just a C shell command. > is this a feature that you dont need to rehash anymore? No, not that I know of. There's a good reason for rehash: it saves time most of the time not to have to search the PATH environment for programs you already know about. It would be easy to eliminate, but it would slow things down. > another wierd thing i found is that when i do a "man rehash" i get > the page for "sh", telling me all about the sh shell....? Really? Don't you mean the C shell? Greg