Re: Auto-update program cache feature

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Auto-update program cache feature
Date	2018-10-08 09:06 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.1851.1539004006.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 10/6/18 4:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> I think a useful feature for Bash would be to automatically update the
>> program cache after an install.
> 
> Put this in your ~/.bashrc file and I believe your use case will be
> much happier.
> 
>   shopt -s checkhash

How many installers put a new version of an existing package into a
possibly-different directory with a different name? Even using a symlink
pointing to a new name would not trigger this behavior.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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