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Comment by mfontani | Hacker News Reader

"command" works also interactively, to call the "real" thing instead of the aliased thing.

As an example, I alias "cat" to run "bat", which pretty-prints the output. If I don't want the pretty-printed output, I can "command cat foo.txt" and it will call the "real" cat.

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I like to escape aliases (ie. using `\vi` when vi is aliased to $EDITOR, but I actually want it), and actually have a special case for bat where I bind ccat to `bat -p --pager=never` for nice, copy-able, and still potentially highlighted output.

You can also bypass aliases by escaping some part of the command

    ~ $ alias true='echo alias'
    ~ $ true
    alias
    ~ $ \true
    ~ $ 'true'
    ~ $ tr'u'e
    ~ $

bat's great! There's an easy way to disable pretty printing too: either use the flag, or pipe to another command.

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