Issue
looking at the magic installers which appear for all types of projects (e.g. for rvm) you'll always see commands like:
\curl ... | bash
e.g.
\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
And I was wondering why these commands start with a slash - they seem to run fine without it.
Any suggestions?
Solution
This is used to call the "original" command, avoiding it to be called with the possible aliases. That is, disables the possible aliases on the command curl
and adjusts to the original one.
If you have
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
and then you do grep
, it will have colours. So if you do not want colours, you would just write \grep
.
Answered By - fedorqui Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)