Hi, Pete Em Terça 19 Setembro 2006 08:29, Pete Geenhuizen escreveu: > When in doubt and far simpler is to preface the > command with \ > i.e \cp file1 file2 I liked that hint! I didn't know about this use of "\", other than escaping special characters. Where do I find more information about this? The "\" prefacing the command is usefull only to ignore an alias with the same name or this is a collateral effect of other functionality? Thanks, Marcelo