On 25.02.2010 23:43, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]> wrote: >> The location of the used utilities may and does differ between various >> distributions and therefore absolute paths do not work well. Since the >> main purpose of its introduction was to avoid side-effects caused by >> aliases, it is sufficient to disable possible aliases temporarily by >> preceding the commands with a backslash. > > Holy crap, that works? Where did you find this trick?
Seems so. I found it in a blog post[1] but not in bash's man page. [1] http://blog.zelut.org/2009/03/14/temporarily-disable-aliases-in-bash/
