Expanding and Disabling Aliases
A few command line options are specifically related to aliases, and are
documented briefly here for completeness.
You can expand an alias on the command line and view or edit the results
by pressing Ctrl-F before the command is executed. Doing so is especially
useful when you are developing and debugging a complex alias or if you
want to make sure that an alias that you may have forgotten won't change
the intent of your command.
At times, you may want to temporarily disable an alias that you have
defined. To do so, precede the command with an asterisk [*]. For example,
if you have an alias for DIR which changes the display format, you can use
the following command to bypass the alias and display the directory in the
standard format:
[c:\] *dir
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