On Unix-like operating systems, the unalias command is a shell command which removes each name from the list of defined aliases.

This page covers the bash built-in version of unalias.

Syntax

unalias [-a] name [name …]

Arguments

Examples

If you did the example on our alias page, to remove that example which was called “home” you would type the following command.

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unalias home

alias — Create an alternate name for a command.