Linux alias chain commands (can recursion be avoided?)

Question

I've been looking around for ways to alias clear and ls into one command. Currently I've defined command x:

alias x="clear;ls"

Now is there any walkaround to avoid recursion and define:

 alias ls='clear;ls'

Answer 1

If you put a backslash before the command name, that will disable any aliases.

alias ls='clear;\ls'

Or, like Arnaud said, just use the full path for ls.

Answer 2

Another way of doing this would be

alias ls='clear; command ls'

This is different from /usr/bin/ls, as it still searches ls in the $PATH, but will ignore shell functions or aliases.