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From: Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Subject: Re: path caching
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> Why can't you do something like:
> This is untested, since I don't have symbolic links.
> cache = $home/.cache
> fn rehash {
> 	for (i in $path) {
> 		@{ cd $i
> 		for (j in *) {
> 			if (! test -x $cache/$j) ln -s $i/$j $cache/$j
> 		}
> 		}
> 	}
> }

Possible, but I wanted to keep the size of the cache down, so
directory lookups are quicker.  If I did the above, I would have one
directory with approx 1800 entries.  I would also have name clashes
with system v vs bsd vs gnu stuff.  Still it may be worth testing.

Sm
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