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

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On 2021-08-31 at 10:58, Steve Dondley wrote:

> OK, so I dropped the new fzf into /usr/local/bin. I confirmed it is the 
> correct version with:
> 
> admin@ip-172-30-0-226 /usr/local/bin
>> $ ./fzf --version
> 0.27.2 (e086f0b)
> 
> "echo $PATH" reports:
> 
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> 
> So it looks like any binary in /usr/local/bin should load first.
> 
> However, "which fzf" reports the /usr/bin as the location:
> 
> /usr/bin/fzf
> 
> I'm using zsh.
> 
> What am I missing?

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.

I remember reading once upon a time about a command called 'rehash'
which would cause the shell to re-check all its cached paths for
everything, but that hasn't been available in any *nix environment I've
ever actually been running, as far as I'm aware.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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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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