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Is there a way to echo an alias?

rated 0 times [ 69] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 57840 / 2 Years ago, sat, april 23, 2022, 3:08:57

I have set some aliases in my .bashrc file and for some reason one of them does not behave as expected.

Since I don't remember the exact command assigned to that alias, I would like to see the command to find out what's wrong.

Except the obvious opening the .bashrc file to see it, is there a command that just echos the command assigned to that alias?

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answered 2 Years ago damomnning · Accepted Answer

Instead of using grep, you can just type alias aliasname to see what an alias is set to.

For example, alias ls will return ls='ls --color=auto'.

Also take a look at the type and whence commands, which return more detailed information about utilities, including executable files in your path, shell built-ins, aliases, and shell functions.