Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:31:16 -0800 From: gcrutchr@nightflight.com To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accessing New files in a directory Message-ID: <XFMail.960323113115.gcrutchr@nightflight.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960323142106.22254A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
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Thank you, Gary On Sat Mar 23 22:23:30 1996 Chuck Robey wrote: >>On Sat, 23 Mar 1996 gcrutchr@nightflight.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a command to re-read a directory after you have installed a program in it. >> The directory is in my path, but after doing a 'make install', I cannot access it via my path statements. >> I have to explicitly specify the path to the app >> >> Thanks, > >Your shell keeps a hashed list of every executeable in your path to speed >execution. It doesn't actually reread your path. To make your shell >rebuild that list, after you install new software, give the 'rehash' >command. You'll have to do this for every open shell, because the shells >don't share their lists. > > >========================================================================== >Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 > >Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, > Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, >Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, > One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game >In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. > One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, > One Account to make them all and in the network bind them. > > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: gcrutchr@nightflight.com Date: 03/23/96 Time: 11:31:06 Gary Crutcher, URL: http://www.nightflight.com/ WebMaster, Voice: 619-631-7885 NightFlight Fax: 619-631-7885 This message was send by XF-Mail ----------------------------------
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