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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!i-2000.com!usenet From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: path question Date: 2 Sep 1995 14:10:42 GMT Organization: I-2000 Inc. - Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <429ol2$7on@i-2000.com> References: <423snf$ist@gol1.gol.com> <426oc4$esa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Reply-To: freyes@i-2000.com NNTP-Posting-Host: freyes.dh.i-2000.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> wrote: >For [t]csh: type `rehash'. > >For [ba]sh: type `hash -r' >The shell remembers the location of commands, so you have to notify it >whenever you have installed a new command. Although in this case the user is using test1 I think it is good to mention that test could be an internal command (or at least so it seems in bash) so it is best to stay away from that name. Is this questions anywhere on a FAQ? I asked the question myself (a few weeks ago) and it seems a questions common enough to be either on a FAQ or on a URL. ps I just checked the UNIX faq posted in Unix.questions and did not mention any of this. I will send a note to the maintainer.