Bug 101392 – alias expansion ignores $PATH

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description William Finn 2005-08-04 17:00:22 UTC]

~ $ which mysql
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
~ $ alias live='mysql -uuser -p -hmyhost.example.com -P1337 database'
~ $ live
bash: /usr/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install an app in a 'nonstandard' location
2. define an alias to that app
3. run the alias

Actual Results:  
bash: /usr/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
Enter password:

in my .bashrc file I have
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-08-05 07:42:25 UTC]

Does 'hash -d mysql' fix it?

[Comment 2 William Finn 2005-08-05 08:11:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does 'hash -d mysql' fix it?

Indeed it does.   ???

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-08-05 08:19:29 UTC]

do you use bash-completion ?

[Comment 4 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-08-05 08:37:42 UTC]

Your shell does some caching to avoid having to look for programs every time you
run them. The 'hash' built-in lets you tinker with this. This is fairly standard
and allowed by POSIX:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/hash.html

So, it's a feature, not a bug.