BASH provides *command* as an override to specifically bypass redirects such as an alias. If you don't know *find* is really */usr/bin/find* you can use *command* to tell BASH you don't want it to consider aliases.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:31 PM wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what *command does (aside from employing Buzz Lightyear), one > can skip alias checking by using a backslash as the first character. ie: > > \find / -name stripes.png > > -wes > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:26 PM Johnathan Mantey <mante...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Perhaps you have an alias or some such in the way? > > > > Try *command find ~ -name .bashrc* > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:52 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, David wrote: > > > > > > > Try this: > > > > > > > > find / -name 'stripes.png' > > > > > > > Not sure it will do anything different, > > > > > > David, > > > > > > Nope. No difference. and it's a forward slash for searches starting > > at / > > > and a dot if starting at the pwd. > > > > > > > echo $SHELL > > > > `echo $SHELL` --version > > > > > > Same distribution version so same bash version. > > > > > > Thanks for the thought, > > > > > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
