> On Jun 16, 2020, at 10:51 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> > wrote: > >> On 6/16/20 10:26 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> >>> On 6/16/20 9:56 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> >>> It's not a warning; there's nothing to warn about. An empty hash >>> table is not an exceptional condition. It's simply informational. >> >> Then would you say it is debug info? > > No, not at all. What are you trying to debug? > > Maybe it would be better to remove the message entirely and only > display it in compatibility mode.
The user-friendly way to view the table is by running `hash` without arguments. It prints "hash table empty" as well, which makes sense in that context. Given that, it makes sense to me to change `hash -l`, which is expressly intended for scripting use, to output nothing when the table is empty. vq
