Re: GNU locate looking into a non-existant tree
Re: GNU locate looking into a non-existant tree
- Subject: Re: GNU locate looking into a non-existant tree
- From: Mo McRoberts <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:23:41 +0100
On 16-May-2010, at 00:21, John B Brown wrote:
> Dear Folk,
>
> After doing a wipe -r on /usr/local and recompiling the GNU findutils package to install under /usr, the command 'locate --version' returns a peculiar failure;
>
>> (1): % locate --version
>> -bash: /usr/local/bin/locate: No such file or directory
>
> But of course, it's correct, but 'whereis' reveals;
>
>> (5): % whereis locate
>> /usr/bin/locate
>
> My PATH has no /usr/local anything in it now; I edited all that stuff out.
the error’s from bash itself. it caches paths of executables you’ve run recently. do a “hash locate” to force it to forget the old path.
M.
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