You can do "alias select=command select", it works in bash and zsh (and maybe others). In zsh you could also "alias select=noglob command select" and it wouldn

You can do "alias select=command select", it works in bash and zsh (and maybe others). In zsh you could also "alias select=noglob command select" and it wouldn't do wildcard matching. Then you could use select * from ... and it would pass the asterisk to your select binary :)