> alias alis='cat ~/.bash_aliases' That only lists what's in .bash_aliases, along with any comments. Why not just run alias without arguments? It lists all ac

> alias alis='cat ~/.bash_aliases' That only lists what's in .bash_aliases, along with any comments. Why not just run alias without arguments? It lists all active aliases, however and whenever they were defined. $ man bash /^SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS ... alias [-p] [name[=value] ...] "Alias with no arguments or with the -p option prints the list of aliases in the form alias name=value on standard output."