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Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

From Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?
Date 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
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On 2021-08-31 11:19 AM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>> This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my 
>> understanding,
>> the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given
>> command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't 
>> have
>> to re-do the filesystem accesses on every run of the command; this
>> mapping of known paths to commands is apparently referred to as a set 
>> of
>> hashes.
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with zsh, but in bash, you could try 'hash -d fzf' to
>> drop the cached known path for fzf (so that the next check will look 
>> it
>> up again from scratch), or even 'hash -r' to forget *all* the known
>> paths for everything.

The "hash" command does not appear to even be installed on my system, 
even with sudo, maybe because I'm using zsh. But I did a little googling 
around and found this tip:

PATH="$PATH"

This will reset the command cache in zsh. I don't think this is the 
official way to do it, though.

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Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 15:20 +0200
  Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-08-31 15:50 +0200
    Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 16:40 +0200
      Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 16:50 +0200
        Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 16:50 +0200
          Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:00 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-31 17:10 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:20 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-31 18:10 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 20:30 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 20:50 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 23:30 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:10 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 20:30 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-09-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-09-01 12:20 +0200

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