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All paths to directories with Linux commands are stored within a variable called $PATH. Once a command is being called its path is stored additionally in a notebook called hash to speed up the look up next time.

The hash is a shell builtin command and help hash gives a very short description. One option -t is described as printing all paths collected within the hash, and so I typed:

hash -t

being sure I would get a listing of the hash's content.

However I got this:

bash: hash: -t: option requires an argument

  • What argument does it require?

  • What am I doing wrong?

  • How to show the content of the hash table?

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This is hash as implemented in bash, I presume?

hash -t requires an argument, because it's a request for the hashed location of one or several utilities:

$ hash -t ls /bin/ls $ hash -t ls man ls /bin/ls man /usr/bin/man

As the help text says:

print the remembered location of each NAME, preceding each location with the corresponding NAME if multiple NAMEs are given

To show all hashed utilities, use hash without any arguments:

$ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/man 2 /bin/ls

Again, as the help text says:

If no arguments are given, information about remembered commands is displayed.

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    thank you, i read the text, but I misunderstood it Commented May 16, 2017 at 20:56

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