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Re: Why doesn't the type builtin hash found commands?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Why doesn't the type builtin hash found commands? |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:53:31 -0500 |
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On 1/9/21 11:51 AM, Utku wrote:
Bash hashes a command after it has been discovered. `type` is a shell
builtin but it does not hash a command after it discovers a command:
Because that's not its purpose. It's supposed to tell you what bash would
do with a command name if you tried to execute it.
If you want to hash a command name, use `hash'.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/