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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 17:20 +0200
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> 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.

Ah, yes, some kind of zsh command caching appears to be implemented. But 
rather than guessing at the correct zsh command, logging in with a 
totally new shell corrected the problem and "which" now shows the 
expected path.

Thanks!

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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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