What is an alias really doing?

Question

I'm looking for a way to check what an alias is really doing, without having to check the ${HOME}/.profile file, or whatever other file where you can define an alias.

For example, if I run ll and I have it defined in the .profile file as ls -l, then that is what is being executed. How can I know that without having to grep or look into the .profile file?

Answer 1

Try this:

alias ll

or this:

type ll