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What causes bash to pause after a bad command?
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Problem
When you are typing a bad command, say you want to do: But instead you type too fast and end up hitting enter between l and s, so you get: This happens all the time of course, when we type fast. What I'm curious about is the source of the 2.5 second (on my system) pause after the bad command text a…
Error Output
$ cd .. $ ls
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This type of behavior is caused by a tool frequently installed on some distributions that hook into bash. This hook makes it so that if you try to run a command, and the command doesn't exist, then bash will search the files available in the configu…
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