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Re: Need some shell scripting help



Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@andago.com> wrote:

> '\ls' apparently has the same effect as 'command ls'. It might be a
> bashism though.

Backslashes inhibit the lookup of aliases in all POSIX shells.  However,
it doesn't turn function lookups off which command does.
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