zsh alias being overridden somehow

Question

I'm on a system running OS X 10.8.5.

I recently tried to alias ls to ls -G -la command. I opened up ~/.zshrc, put in the alias, relaunched the terminal, but the change didn't take effect. Upon performing which ls, I found out that it's already being aliased to ls -G.

This isn't behaviour I ever set up. Is there any way to find out where this alias is being set?

Solution 1

You tagged the question with oh-my-zsh, but did not mention it in the question.

I suspect that oh-my-zsh is creating its own ls alias. If this happens after you define your alias, then it will override yours.

You should probably uncomment DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true" in your .zshrc, or put your alias after the line that does source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh.

Solution 2

Create a file called custom.zsh in ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/ and put your aliases in this file. These are loaded last in "oh-my-zsh".

Solution 3

It is probably in the global system .zshrc or equivalent. You should be able to put:

unalias ls
alias ls='ls -G -la'

That will delete the original alias and then create your alias

Comments

[Jules]

Just tried that. I get no such hash table element: ls

[kurtm]

@atleastthreecharacters So then ls isn't aliased. What syntax are you using to define your alias?

[Jules]

I'm using alias shortcut="full-command-name". But I know it's aliased, not just because of the reason I stated in my original question, but also because ls actually does display colour-coded results.