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Provide a syntax to call native binaries when its name is aliased

See original GitHub issue

Like, if I have both gsn (as an alias) and gsn (as a script on Linux with Shebang), the latter one is unaccessable (unless you provide its full path).

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:12 (2 by maintainers)

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iSazonovcommented, Oct 7, 2017

Bash workarounds:

\ls
"ls"
'ls'
/usr/bin/ls
command ls
unalias ls; ls

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BrucePaycommented, Sep 13, 2016

The ability to use “:gsn” was intentional. Per POSIX, any valid file name character can be used in a command name (where the legal filename characters varying between file systems). With respect to @gsn, you can always use quoting to disambiguate e,g, Get-ChildItem "@gsn".
We do have an existing notation --% which tells parser to stop quote and expansion processing - we might be able to tweak that though it would be technically breaking but probably wouldn’t really break anything, One other possibility is to simply keep using the .exe suffix syntax and give it the semantic that it looks for a native command without the suffix on *NIX systems e.g. ‘gsn.exe’ is mapped to “gsn”

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