Chet Ramey wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Put this in your ~/.bashrc file and I believe your use case will be
> > much happier.
> >
> > shopt -s checkhash
>
> How many installers put a new version of an existing package into a
> possibly-different directory with a different name? Even using a
On 10/6/18 4:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> I think a useful feature for Bash would be to automatically update the
>> program cache after an install.
>
> Put this in your ~/.bashrc file and I believe your use case will be
> much happier.
>
> shopt -s checkhash
How many
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I think a useful feature for Bash would be to automatically update the
> program cache after an install.
Put this in your ~/.bashrc file and I believe your use case will be
much happier.
shopt -s checkhash
In the bash manual:
checkhash
On 10/3/18 4:45 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale
> program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or
> sources and then are confused when the new package is not used. They
> do not realize they need to
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 11:20 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
(...)
> How Bash achieves it is an implementation detail left to the experts.
> I made a few suggestions that don't seem to fit well. That's OK
> because Bash internals is not my area of expertise.
I think it's important to always consider
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:33 PM Eduardo A. Bustamante López
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:45:44PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale
> > program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or
>
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:45:44PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale
> program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or
> sources and then are confused when the new package is not used. They
> do not
Hi Everyone,
I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale
program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or
sources and then are confused when the new package is not used. They
do not realize they need to run 'bash -r'; and most don't know where
to begin
