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Re:Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers by irahul on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @11:45AM (#7710794)
> I've never needed to use the rackup "rack" command directly, fortunately, if you do you ought to use a different alias

Or escape alias \rack

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Re:Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers by alxndr on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @06:22PM (#7712960)
or $(which rack)
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Re:Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers by alxndr on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @10:08PM (#7713623)
Hm, I've recently begun using zsh primarily and this trick doesn't work there: zsh lets you know what the alias is... bash will happily find `rack` in your `$PATH` and then run it.

(Presumably because in zsh, `which which` says it's a shell built-in, whereas in bash it finds `/usr/bin/which`, so bash doesn't seem to be caring about your aliases.)

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Re:Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers by mhei on Thursday May 08, 2014 @02:45AM (#7714190)
If you have the EQUALS option set (by default it is), you can use =rack instead: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#g_t_00...
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Re:Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers by alxndr on Thursday May 15, 2014 @05:00PM (#7752209)
Lovely, thanks!
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