osf1 man page for hash

hash(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   hash(1)

NAME
       hash - Remembers or reports utility locations

SYNOPSIS
       hash [utility]

       hash -r

STANDARDS
       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       hash:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS
       Forgets all previously remembered utility locations.

OPERANDS
       The  name  of  a  utility  to  be searched for and added to the list of remembered locations.  If utility contains one or more slashes, the
       results are unspecified.

DESCRIPTION
       The hash utility affects the way the current shell environment remembers the locations of utilities found. Depending on the arguments spec-
       ified, it adds utility locations to its list of remembered locations or it purges the contents of the list.

       When  no  arguments  are specified, hash reports on the contents of the list.  This list consists of those utilities named in previous hash
       invocations that have been invoked, and those invoked and found through the normal command search process.  This  list  includes  the  path
       name of each utility in the list of remembered locations for the current shell environment.

NOTES
       The use of hash with utility names is unnecessary for most applications, but may provide a performance improvement.  The effects of hash -r
       can also be achieved by resetting the value of PATH.

RESTRICTIONS
       If hash is called in a separate utility execution environment, such as one of the following it will not affect the command  search  process
       of  the	caller's  environment.	nohup hash -r find . -type f | xargs hash Utilities provided as built-ins to the shell are not reported by
       hash.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned: Successful completion.  An error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables affect the execution of hash: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that  are
       unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used.  If any of the internationalization vari-
       ables contains an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined.  If set to a non-empty  string  value,
       overrides  the  values of all the other internationalization variables.	Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes
       of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte characters in arguments).  Determines the locale  that  should
       be  used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.  Determines the location of message catalogues
       for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.  Determines the location of name.

SEE ALSO
       Commands:  command(1), type(1)

       Standards:  standards(5)

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