PATH question

[Chris Malton]

Restart your bash shell or the PC.

This usually clears this up.

Bash does file location caching.

Chris

R Kimber wrote:
> "echo $PATH" gives
> 
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> 
> "which sensors" gives
> /usr/bin/sensors
> 
> "ls -l /usr/bin/sensors" gives
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 144448 2007-03-07 14:02 /usr/bin/sensors
> 
> "sensors" gives
> bash: /usr/local/bin/sensors: No such file or directory
> 
> What do I need to do to be able to execute 'sensors' ? I seems to be
> able to execute other files in /usr/bin, and I can execute it if I give
> the full pathname.
> 
> - Richard

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