[gnu.bash.bug] Why doesn't bash hash paths when...

andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (11/21/89)

Bash 1.04   uvaxII  Ultrix 2.0

If I am sitting at the prompt and I press the key for
possible-completions,  I get a trillion commands printed out.
However, bash hashes none of them.  Is there a reason why this hashing
should not be done, since the paths have all been followed anyway?

The same holds true if I issue the command  type -path xxx.  An
argument against hashing in the previous example may not apply to this
one.

Just curious.
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
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