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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Alias's & Functions - simple question Post 31070 by Kelam_Magnus on Thursday 31st of October 2002 03:29:21 PM
Old 10-31-2002
unalias is what you are looking for.

From the manpage

unalias name ...
unalias -a

Remove each name from the alias list. With -a, remove all alias definitions from the current shell execution environment.

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unalias(1)						      General Commands Manual							unalias(1)

NAME
unalias - Removes alias definitions SYNOPSIS
unalias alias-name... unalias -a Note The C shell has a built-in version of the unalias command. If you are using the C shell, and want to guarantee that you are using the com- mand described here, you must specify the full path /usr/bin/unalias. See the csh(1) reference page for a description of the built-in com- mand. STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: unalias: XCU5.0 Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. OPTIONS
Removes all alias definitions from the current shell execution environment. OPERANDS
The name of an alias to be removed. DESCRIPTION
The unalias utility removes the definition for each alias name specified. The aliases are removed from the current shell execution environ- ment. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Successful completion. One of the alias-name operands specified did not represent a valid alias definition, or an error occurred. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of unalias: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization variables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte characters in arguments). Determines the locale used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. SEE ALSO
Commands: alias(1), csh(1) Standards: standards(5) unalias(1)
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