On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:22 -0600, Alex White wrote: > Curious question that is directly related to this. This did work > on my system; however, I'm not sure if this is something one wants > to be doing. If one were to type literally: > > "cp" -fr somedir somefile ~/ > > Would this defeat the alias (in bash)? [ignacio at localhost ~]$ alias foo=bar [ignacio at localhost ~]$ foo bash: bar: command not found [ignacio at localhost ~]$ "foo" bash: foo: command not found [ignacio at localhost ~]$ \foo bash: foo: command not found -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed