Commands with options: (was: war story: parallel(1) command)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
...
> Fedora seems to provide an alias for ls that I detest (from
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh):
> 	alias ls='ls --color=tty' 2>/dev/null
>
> Why do I dislike this?
>
> - it wasn't what I'm used to
>
> - it was foisted on me without announcement

    Many distros set a number of aliases, some of them dangerous (e.g.
    alias rm='rm -i'). That's why I always have 'unalias -a' at the top
    of my .bashrc.

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