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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:08:03 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rehash command
Message-ID:  <20020619220802.A40806@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <006601c2181e$74b1f3a0$7b6c6bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net>; from grant.cooper@nucleus.com on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:50:59PM -0600
References:  <F229AQDNIGtMA9Qmn9Z000138f3@hotmail.com> <006601c2181e$74b1f3a0$7b6c6bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net>

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:50:59PM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote:
>=20
> I did the "man rehash" to understand the term, but can someone help me out
> in english? I am a little confused still.
> How does rehash determine if your shell was installed. I did this command
> before and after and got the same results.

rehash is used by csh and derivatives to rescan the list of
directories in your PATH to look for new binaries you have just
installed.

> "Install the shell as a port or a package, just as you would any other po=
rt
> or package. Use rehash and which tcsh (assuming you are installing tcsh) =
to
> make sure it got installed."

Where are you quoting this from?

Kris

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