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hello,

I noticed some weird aliasese in bash.
Do I have any type of Malware? How can I confirm this the case or confirm it is not the case?

I have my normal alaiasese, that I set my self and then there are these aliasese, which were not present last time i listed my aliases #8like 3 or 4 months ago):

alias l=‘ls -CF’
alias l.=‘ls -d .* --color=auto’
alias la=‘ls -A’
alias ll=‘ls -l’
alias ls=‘ls --color=auto’
alias mingw32-env=‘eval rpm --eval %{mingw32_env}’
alias mingw64-env=‘eval rpm --eval %{mingw64_env}’
alias which=‘(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot’
alias xzegrep=‘xzegrep --color=auto’
alias xzfgrep=‘xzfgrep --color=auto’
alias xzgrep=‘xzgrep --color=auto’
alias zegrep=‘zegrep --color=auto’
alias zfgrep=‘zfgrep --color=auto’
alias zgrep=‘zgrep --color=auto’

Thanks!

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These are all reasonable aliases. Nothing bad.

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They are aliases for the MinGW cross compilers:

You probably have some installed on your system as dependencies for another development package:

$ rpm -qa|grep mingw
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The normal aliases that I have for my user (using the alias command) are

alias egrep='grep -E --color=auto'
alias fgrep='grep -F --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto'
alias ll='ls -l --color=auto'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias which='(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot'
alias xzegrep='xzegrep --color=auto'
alias xzfgrep='xzfgrep --color=auto'
alias xzgrep='xzgrep --color=auto'
alias zegrep='zegrep --color=auto'
alias zfgrep='zfgrep --color=auto'
alias zgrep='zgrep --color=auto'

As already noted, the mingw aliases seem related to something you may have installed for cross compiling using the mingw system.