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

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:19:10AM -0400, 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.
> 
> 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.

There's `hash -r' for that (bash, dash). I'd bet that zsh has something
along that lines, too.

Cheers
 - t

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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
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