From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: whence output varies with dot vs. realpath in $PATH
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:26:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bCX9Ss01kOHfMLu=jX8hJithKUtjf7Xf_+kURF8ve3Tw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7b5=2grjnNWPGCUFYavAS5+JiMpnhOM7+KfnEJLi565CA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:18 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> It's the -m option. If you ask for a pattern match, "whence" rebuilds
> the internal command hash table from the path and then does the
> matching against that. However, "." is never used when loading the
> hash table because it would become invalid as soon as you change
> directories.
There's one additional thing going on. When you use BOTH -a and -m,
then anything found in the hash table with -m is searched for AGAIN by
-a, using the name as found in the hash table rather than the pattern
supplied as the -m argument. This is why "zsh" shows up multiple
times but your garbled-name scripts do not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-31 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 13:30 Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 13:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:06 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 14:10 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:32 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 14:36 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:57 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 21:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 22:26 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-10-31 22:59 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 23:17 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 23:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-31 23:21 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 0:03 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 0:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 0:55 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 1:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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