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Re:Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases by Graziano_M on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:26AM (#43266821)
On what shell? That doesn't work in bash. I use `type` for that, since it'll tell you if it's on PATH, a function, or an alias

which gdb /opt/homebrew/bin/gdb

~ type gdb gdb is aliased to `gdb -q'

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Re:Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases by pcthrowaway on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:54AM (#43267288)
In bash this is how I get git completions working (with bash functions rather than aliases):

    __git_complete grm _git_rm
    grm() {
      git rm "${@}"
    }
Internally git uses the __git_complete function to set up completions for its subcommands, though this may be specific to your OS/distro and perhaps or git version.

This does seem to ship as part of git now, here[1].

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/6a64ac7b014fa2cfa7a69af3c253...

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Re:Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases by lvncelot on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:30AM (#43266882)
zsh for me

~ ▸ which k

k: aliased to kubectl

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