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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:33:49 -0600 (CST)
From:      laszlo vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rehash missing
Message-ID:  <199802010533.XAA01656@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980201125708.32249@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 1, 98 12:57:08 pm"

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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
> 




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