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Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> >> describe something more.
> >> and what you mean "rehash"?
> >
> > Rehashing forces the shell to "reinitialise" (for want of a
> > better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes
> > discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work ...
>
> ok you mean shell rehashing. so PATH is missing something

Or an executable was added to one of the PATH directories since the
last time PATH was set or the "rehash" command was issued, e.g. when
a port was installed or upgraded.  See tcsh(1) for details.