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imagineerThat
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Reputation: 5553

Bash: which <app> returns different location than expected

Can anyone explain to me why the following is happening? 

[$] pip
-bash: /usr/local/bin/pip: No such file or directory
[$] which pip
/bin/pip

Upvotes: 3

Views: 174

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1124110

Application lookups are cached. Reset the pip entry:

hash pip

Quoting man bash:

If the name is neither a shell function nor a builtin, and contains no slashes, bash searches each element of the PATH for a directory containing an executable file by that name. Bash uses a hash table to remember the full pathnames of executable files (see hash under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below). A full search of the directories in PATH is performed only if the command is not found in the hash table.

and the entry for hash in the same documentation:

hash [-lr] [-p filename] [-dt] [name]
For each name, the full file name of the command is determined by searching the directories in $PATH and remembered.

which always searches your path regardless of the hash entry.

Upvotes: 5

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