Thanks. That was indeed the problem. I suspect that somewhere along the line the checkhash option went from default on to default off. I merely need to set it to on in my .profile to get the behavior I expect.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1399948 Title: Commands on found if both ./bin and ~/bin in PATH Status in bash package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I use (and have been using for 20 years or so) a path variable that looks like PATH=".;./bin;~/bin;$PATH"; export PATH This PATH should execute in priority: project specific commands (in the working directory, or the bin subdirectory of the working directory), my personal commands (in my $HOME/bin folder) and then system commands. The problem seems to be that when I start a shell in my home directory, it will cache the location of commands in ~/bin as if they were in ./bin and then will be unable to find them if I cd out of my home directory. For example, I have a personal command called SlideShow: Here is a short example: ralmond@Limu:~$ file ~/bin/SlideShow /home/ralmond/bin/SlideShow: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable ralmond@Limu:~$ # Works fine if I execute it from home directory ralmond@Limu:~$ SlideShow Pictures/ ^C [Working as expected] ralmond@Limu:~$ cd Pictures/ ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ #But if I change directory it does not work. ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ SlideShow Pics bash: ./bin/SlideShow: No such file or directory ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ #If I start the shell in a directory other than home it works ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ bash ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ SlideShow Pics ^C [Working as expected] I suspect that it is some cache which is not properly getting reset. Here are my system details: ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ apt-cache policy bash bash: Installed: 4.3-7ubuntu1.5 Candidate: 4.3-7ubuntu1.5 Version table: *** 4.3-7ubuntu1.5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4.3-6ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ ^C ralmond@Limu:~/Pictures$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1399948/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
