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Re: Weird behaviour of 'hash' builtin
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Weird behaviour of 'hash' builtin |
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Mon, 31 May 2010 22:55:36 -0400 |
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On 5/30/10 4:22 AM, Jan Schampera wrote:
> If this is not a bug, what's the reason behind this? Is it to blindly
> report success when an operand "looks like a pathname"?
`hash' ignores operands with slashes. It just doesn't consider them at
all. They don't get into the hash table and they don't contribute to the
success or failure of the command.
Chet
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