On Solaris 9 this probably should work too (depending on the shell which you did not specify), try:
The added backslash forces the alias to use the actual command du instead of the alias du you created earlier.
An alternative you could try is to call the previously defined alias du:
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PF below details,
> cat run.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
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> ll
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