Re: ? problem with dselect (dpkg dpkg-0.93.70.deb)
Richard Kettlewell writes ("? problem with dselect (dpkg dpkg-0.93.70.deb)"):
> Oz Dror writes:
> >I got the following error:
> >bash: /usr/sbin/dselect: No such file or directory
> >but there is a file dselect in
> >/usr/bin/dselect
>
> You need to type 'hash -r' [...]
> Hmm. Perhaps this is a bug (or alternatively a design flaw) in bash.
> Sensible behaviour here should be easy to implement, and I can't see
> why the current behaviour should be useful.
I agree.
A `stat' of each of the directories on the PATH, when a hash lookup
fails, would be quite easily done, and would be much quicker than
having to reread every directory.
Ian.
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