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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:41:10 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com>, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installed a port now I can't get it to run
Message-ID:  <20000613094110.A57845@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000613092630.I18462@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:26:30AM -0700
References:  <007401bfd547$975b4a80$a1dba7d1@odie> <20000613092630.I18462@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:26:30AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Some shells will cache the PATH variable that tells them where all
> the executables are, they won't rescan the PATH for new executeables
> until after 'rehash' is used.  Other shells scan the entire PATH each
> time.

And other shells (e.g. bash) cache the PATH, but automatically
rehash if you try to run a command that's not in the cache.

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


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