[Gloucs] Odd shell behaviour...

[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:18:33PM +0000, Mick Brooks wrote:
> After all, /usr/bin/X11/gv doesn't exist, so bash should keep looking,
> shouldn't it?

Yes. Heres what I have (from Debian Unstable):

[n6tadam at station tmp]$ type gv
gv is hashed (/usr/bin/X11/gv)

[n6tadam at station tmp]$ hash -r
[n6tadam at station tmp]$ type gv
gv is /usr/bin/X11/gv

[n6tadam at station tmp]$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/gv
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 263800 Sep  1 04:42 /usr/bin/X11/gv

[n6tadam at station tmp]$ ls -l /usr/bin/gv
ls: /usr/bin/gv: No such file or directory

> :-) Again, strace output makes no mention of /usr/bin/X11 and
> immediately starts working with /usr/bin/gv - and I can't get an
> strace of the not-working case for comparison...

No need for that. I suggest that the installation is off.

-- Thomas Adam

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