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47 .TH HASH 1 "Jul 17, 2002"
49 hash, rehash, unhash, hashstat \- evaluate the internal hash table of the
50 contents of directories
54 \fB/usr/bin/hash\fR [\fIutility\fR]
59 \fB/usr/bin/hash\fR [\fB-r\fR]
65 \fBhash\fR [\fB-r\fR] [\fIname\fR]...
87 \fBhash\fR [\fIname\fR]...
99 The \fB/usr/bin/hash\fR utility affects the way the current shell environment
100 remembers the locations of utilities found. Depending on the arguments
101 specified, it adds utility locations to its list of remembered locations or it
102 purges the contents of the list. When no arguments are specified, it reports on
103 the contents of the list. The \fB-r\fR option causes the shell to forget all
104 remembered locations.
107 Utilities provided as built-ins to the shell are not reported by \fBhash\fR.
111 For each \fIname\fR, the location in the search path of the command specified
112 by \fIname\fR is determined and remembered by the shell. The \fB-r\fR option to
113 the \fBhash\fR built-in causes the shell to forget all remembered locations. If
114 no arguments are given, \fBhash\fR provides information about remembered
115 commands. The \fIHits\fR column of output is the number of times a command has
116 been invoked by the shell process. The \fICost\fR column of output is a measure
117 of the work required to locate a command in the search path. If a command is
118 found in a "relative" directory in the search path, after changing to that
119 directory, the stored location of that command is recalculated. Commands for
120 which this will be done are indicated by an asterisk (\fB*\fR) adjacent to the
121 \fIHits\fR information. \fICost\fR will be incremented when the recalculation
126 \fBrehash\fR recomputes the internal hash table of the contents of directories
127 listed in the \fBpath\fR environmental variable to account for new commands
131 \fBunhash\fR disables the internal hash table.
134 \fBhashstat\fR prints a statistics line indicating how effective the internal
135 hash table has been at locating commands (and avoiding \fBexec\fRs). An
136 \fBexec\fR is attempted for each component of the \fIpath\fR where the hash
137 function indicates a possible hit and in each component that does not begin
142 For each \fIname\fR, the location in the search path of the command specified
143 by \fIname\fR is determined and remembered by the shell. The \fB-r\fR option to
144 the \fBhash\fR built-in causes the shell to forget all remembered locations. If
145 no arguments are given, \fBhash\fR provides information about remembered
150 The following operand is supported by \fBhash\fR:
157 The name of a utility to be searched for and added to the list of remembered
164 The standard output of \fBhash\fR is used when no arguments are specified. Its
165 format is unspecified, but includes the pathname of each utility in the list of
166 remembered locations for the current shell environment. This list consists of
167 those utilities named in previous \fBhash\fR invocations that have been
168 invoked, and may contain those invoked and found through the normal command
170 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
173 See \fBenviron\fR(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
174 that affect the execution of \fBhash\fR: \fBLANG\fR, \fBLC_ALL\fR,
175 \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLC_MESSAGES\fR, and \fBNLSPATH\fR.
182 Determine the location of \fIutility\fR.
188 The following exit values are returned by \fBhash\fR:
195 Successful completion.
210 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
218 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
220 Interface Stability Standard
226 \fBcsh\fR(1), \fBksh\fR(1), \fBsh\fR(1), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBenviron\fR(5),