Command in path not found [duplicate]

Question

I've a command in the ~/.local/bin/ path (lets call it dog). Calling the command with the full path ~/.local/bin/dog works as expected .

When I do which dog I get the expected ~/.local/bin/dog. When I check the $PATH ~/.local/bin is there as it should (actually it is /home/ec2-user/.local/bin)

But if simply type dog I get the following error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/dog: No such file or directory

The output for type dog is dog is hashed (/usr/local/bin/dog) But for type -a dog is dog is /home/ec2-user/.local/bin/dog

Ideas?

Answer 1

Maybe you should run the command hash -r. From John1024's answer:

If you update your system and, as a result, some executable moves to a new location, the shell may get confused. The solution is to run hash -r which causes the shell to forget all the hashed locations and search the PATH from scratch.