• @[email protected]
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    810 months ago

    Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      linux rookie here, what’s the command to reverse an alias then? do you just “alias ls ls” to overwrite it?

      • @Chobbes
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        310 months ago

        You can use unalias, or you can use a backslash in front of an aliased command or surround it in double quotes to ignore the alias temporarily.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.