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I have a custom alias for `ls -als` called `la` in my zshrc, and it's being overwritten by something as `ls -lAh`. Where is this coming from?

I have the following in my .zshrc

alias la="ls -als"

And it's being overwritten

▶︎ which la
la: aliased to ls -lAh

Why is this happening / where might it be coming from?

Solution

  • Helped largely by https://stackoverflow.com/a/26742455/413254, it turns out that oh-my-zsh has some built in directory aliases in ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh one of which overwrote my custom one!

    ▶︎ cat directories.zsh
# Changing/making/removing directory
...
# List directory contents
alias lsa='ls -lah'
alias l='ls -lah'
alias ll='ls -lh'
alias la='ls -lAh'

    You could resolve this in a few ways:

    • Change my la alias to something else
    • Modify the above .oh-my-zsh file
    • Make sure that I'm defining my alias AFTER source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh in my .zshrc. That source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh sources basically everything in .oh-my-zsh/lib

    I went with the last option.