I have an alias which is predefined by an oh-my-zsh plugin.
-> % alias gcm
gcm='git checkout master'
I'd like to remove it, i.e. I'd like alias | pcregrep "\bgcm\b"
return 1.
I've tried with alias gcm=''
but after that the alias is still existent.
4 Answers
You can remove an alias simply using:
$ unalias gcm
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1@meteors Each session starts with no aliases, then they get created via your scripts - so, it depends on what you have in them. Jul 26, 2015 at 10:04
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1Note that if you have a global alias, you need to quote the alias name like so:
unalias 'gcm'
. Otherwise, the alias is getting expanded before executing theunalias
command. Mar 12, 2020 at 16:27
This other answer is correct but if you're adding the unalias gcm
line to your .zshrc
file, it must be done AFTER oh-my-zsh is sourced, or else it will be overwritten by the zsh defaults.
It would look something like the below in your .zshrc
file:
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
# must unalias all ZSH defaults here AFTER we source the above
unalias gcm
alias gcm="whatever you want"
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2Since the last alias wins by default, the
unalias
line in this example is superfluous. Jun 3, 2022 at 12:27
For removing git aliases in zsh git plugin you can comment them out in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh
which is default installation location for git plugin