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TIL. I was unaware of that. so if rm is aliased to "rm -i", then \rm will do the normal thing?

Indeed! I had to use this pretty routinely supporting a particular customer at a previous employer.

Their shell profiles were littered with two-letter aliases, replacing quite a few common things with their proprietary [often unrelated] versions

For example, mv for moving files became mv for Mail Volume, or something

dearlordy, that's even worse. aliasing an existing cmd with options preset is one thing. aliasing a well known cmd to some esoteric cmd is mindboggling

You can also do that by prefacing an aliased command with "command".

i like the \ vs 7+space additional key presses. that's like typing the full path without utilizing tab expansion. only noobs do that /s

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