Expanding and Disabling Aliases

A few command line options are specifically related to aliases, and are 
documented briefly here for completeness. 

You can expand an alias on the command line and view or edit the results 
by pressing Ctrl-F before the command is executed.  Doing so is especially 
useful when you are developing and debugging a complex alias or if you 
want to make sure that an alias that you may have forgotten won't change 
the intent of your command. 

At times, you may want to temporarily disable an alias that you have 
defined. To do so, precede the command with an asterisk [*].  For example, 
if you have an alias for DIR which changes the display format, you can use 
the following command to bypass the alias and display the directory in the 
standard format: 

        [c:\] *dir