From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 31 21:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17313 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (dal22-16.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.5.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17300 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id XAA01656; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:33:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kf7nn) From: laszlo vagner Message-Id: <199802010533.XAA01656@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Subject: Re: rehash missing In-Reply-To: <19980201125708.32249@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 1, 98 12:57:08 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:33:49 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Doooh!.. ok so i am dumb..... i didnt realize rehash was part of the shell i did a "csh" and tried "rehash" it works now! actually it always worked if you use the right shell ha! So how do you know what commands are in each shell?? > 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 >