alias command

Bash Shell Temporarily Disable an Alias

by Vivek Gite on March 13, 2009 · 16 comments

I‘ve couple of shell aliases defined in ~/.bashrc file. How do I temporarily remove (disable) a shell alias and call the core command directly without using unalias command?

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