commandliners

Sometimes I want to ignore an alias. That might seem to make no sense because one of the reasons (the reason?) to use an alias (like ls='ls --color') is creating shortcuts. But, in some cases I need to use the real command, with its real output. In my case, it is because I share the same username with other people on some systems (yes, it is pretty awful, but that is another issue).

To do this, precede the command with a backslash: ‘\’. For example:

$ \ls

Update: As loood has said in the comments, typing the command in quotes has the same result.

$ "ls"