Sometimes you may want to bypass an alias temporarily, without disabling it. To work with a concrete example, consider this alias:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
And let's say you want to use the ls
command without disabling the alias.
You have several options:
command
builtin: command ls
/bin/ls
\
anywhere in the command name, for example: \ls
, or l\s
"ls"
or 'ls'