Bill Gradwohl wrote: > when I typo a command, bash comes back with a command not found but > hangs the terminal for way too long.
When you try to launch a command that does not exist anywhere on PATH then bash must search every directory component of PATH in order to look for the command. > How do I get rid of the delay. I want it to release the terminal > immediately. Does your PATH contain directories on NFS or other networked fileservers? If so then those are typical sources of delay. To easily see your directories in PATH: echo $PATH | tr : "\012" Bob
