ls and \ls
Sunday Jul 29, 2007
you may ask why would I blog about this. The answer is simple. People who are new to Unix based systems do not know about it.
ls as everyone knows is a command to list files and directories. Anyone could create a alias for ls so as to customize it, a typical example being [ alias ls='ls --color=auto' ]
Now there are situations where you would like that when you say ls, it should run the ls command as decided by $PATH varilable and not run any alias that you have created. For Ex, you are one a terminal and color display is difficult to read. you dont want remove the alias for this one-time situation. \ls comes to your rescue then. It would run ls as determined by $PATH and does not take into account aliases that have been created.
As you must have guessed, this applies to any command.
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stop being apologetic and explanatory about writin...
point noted.
I would try and see if we could bre...