Path has a memory?

[David Bandel]

On 5/24/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> I have skype in /usr/bin/skype and also in ~/bin/skype
>
> when I renamed the skype in the ~/bin to skype.run and then tried to run
> skype I get an error why?

bash has a hash and remembers where things are to access them quicker.

man bash
/hash

>
> cd /home/jamesm/bin
> mv skype skype.run
> skype
> bash: /home/jamesm/bin/skype: No such file or directory
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David A. Bandel
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