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Function which overrides bash command

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Mar 15, 2026979 views
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Is it possible to call a bash command which has been overridden with a function? I'd like to make with no arguments alias to otherwise get normal behaviour. I've tried but this seems to give infinite recursion. Normally I'd use the full path to whatever program I'm overriding, but is a built-in bas…

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pushd(){
   if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
      pushd .
   else
      pushd $@
   fi
}

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