Recently I had an issue with my 'elder' High Sierra on my 21" iMac Terminal. Finder was showing me files in a directory, but when I went to Terminal and did an 'ls -al' on the same directory it did not show me the same results.
A bit of research told me that 'ls is hashed', which is supposed to speed up shell commands. But how do I clear that hash table?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13
the has you speak of is a shell feature to make accessing the command faster.
hash -r
makes the shell forget its cache of previously used commands.
/bin/ls -la
will ignore the hash as well, and go directly to the ls command.
the -a option is going to show you the invisible files.
Not sure what information you feel is different in the -l option.
I still have this issue with the 'ls' command not agreeing with Finder. I clear the ls hash 'hash -r' but it is still giving me different results. Running High Sierra 10.13.6. Very annoying.
Hoping someone has a clear solution to this issue. Or I would like to hear if you have had a similar experience.
Thanks for the reply. I did find out a bit more about it. But didn't know the -al would ignore it. In all my years of *nix usage I'd never seen this until the iMac recently.
Shell 'ls' command
