How to find out where alias (in the bash sense) is defined when running Terminal in Mac OS X
For OSX, this 2-step sequence worked well for me, in locating an alias I'd created long ago and couldn't locate in expected place (~/.zshrc).
cweekly:~ $ which lala: aliased to ls -lAhcweekly:~$ grep -r ' ls -lAh' ~/Users/cweekly//.oh-my-zsh/lib/aliases.zsh:alias la='ls -lAh'
Aha! "Hiding" in ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/aliases.zsh
. I had poked around a bit in .oh-my-zsh but had overlooked lib/aliases.zsh.
First use the following commands
List all functions
functions
List all aliases
alias
If you aren't finding the alias or function consider a more aggressive searching method
Bash version
bash -ixlc : 2>&1 | grep thingToSearchHere
Zsh version
zsh -ixc : 2>&1 | grep thingToSearchHere
Brief Explanation of Options
-i Force shell to be interactive.-c Take the first argument as a command to execute-x -- equivalent to --xtrace-l Make bash act as if invoked as a login shell