Comments on: Bash Shell Temporarily Disable an Alias

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:54:36 +0000

This is not about clearing screen. It is about disabling aliases.

By: Topper

Topper — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Yes it is ?

By: Kristian

Kristian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:24:30 +0000

Doesn’t control-L clear the screen?

By: Rory Browne

Rory Browne — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:17 +0000

There seem to be some useful tips here – I usually do something like /bin/rm to avoid the rm -i alias. Of course you can always use the -f argument with cancels out -i.

Another thing you could do ( if you wanted to use an unedited version of the command ) would be to start up a sub-shell.

Something along the lines of……

bash
unalias ls
ls
exit

When you exit back out to the parent shell, your unalias is forgotten.

By: Topper

Topper — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:45:25 +0000

unalias [-a] [name ...]
Remove each name from the list of defined aliases
I think that will be removed permanently.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:42:26 +0000

How about unaliasing?
say I’ve a few aliases defined in my ~/.bashrc and ls is one of them:
alias ls=’ls -alhF’

so on prompt to disable it temporarily I will say:

> unalias ls

and done……how about this solution?

By: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:50:36 +0000

Yes I read the post but I thought it was a question not a statement. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

By: Topper

Topper — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:43:03 +0000

Exactly – this was the meaning of author’s post! Did you read it ?

By: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:06:15 +0000

Sorry, the output was not correct. You can disable it when you put a \ before the alias.

Michael

By: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:04:39 +0000

Sorry, the output was not correct. You can put an \ before the alias.

By: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:03:26 +0000

You can temporarily disable it via

or with the full pathname of the command.

Michael

By: Topper

Topper — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:24:13 +0000

Also, you can see all the aliases from .bashrc or .bashcompletition or something else with
# alias TAB
This will list all the aliases

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:48:25 +0000

You can also use `command’. If you have ls aliased to `ls -lh’, command ls will run the ls command as if there was no alias.

By: techfun

techfun — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:09:19 +0000

No problem, I do that kind of thing all the time myself. :)

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:04:37 +0000

Thanks for the heads up.

By: techfun

techfun — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:55:32 +0000

When you said: alias p='clear' I think you meant: alias c='clear'