[Beltalowda]

I don't think grep does any argv-stuff; I took a quick look and I don't see it.

As far as I can tell this is the entire maintenance burden:

  $ cat =egrep =fgrep
  #!/bin/sh
  exec grep -E "$@"
  #!/bin/sh
  exec grep -F "$@"

[yubiox]

what shell does this?

[forgotpwd16]

Apparently zsh replaces =cmd with cmd's absolute path. TIL.

[Beltalowda]

Yes, very useful to bypass aliases if need be, quickly edit a script ("vi =my-script"), etc. I don't think bash has it; you need to use where/whence/which/command/whatever (I can never remember, why are there so many?!)

[btdmaster]

Hack: \command instead of command is very unlikely to be aliased, so should work fine.

[ykonstant]

This is a very useful hack, thanks. Unfortunately, my defensive scripting instincts do not allow me to use it on the "serious" situations.