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Here’s a nifty Linux trick to find out if a command has an alias set. If you want to find out if the command ls has an alias set use the following command:

type -all ls
ls is aliased to `ls –color=tty’
ls is /bin/ls

You can see in the output that ls has one alias in ls –color=tty.