See if this works better

qsgen2

@@ -263,10 +263,12 @@ function _blog_cache() {
 # PAGES CACHE
 # Returns the array pages_array()
 function _pages_cache() {
-    local debug=false
+    local debug=true
     # Create an associative array for the pages cache
     typeset -A pages_cache
     
+    _list_pages
+    
     # Load the existing pages cache
     if [[ -f $pages_cache_file ]]; then
         while IFS=':' read -r name hash; do
@@ -278,8 +280,6 @@ function _pages_cache() {
     # Initialize the array for storing pages files to process
     pages_array=()
     
-    _list_pages
-    
     # Process pages files
     for file in ${pages_file_array[@]}; do
         # Compute the current blog file hash