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Re: [Help-bash] quoting in an alias
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] quoting in an alias |
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Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:31:08 -0500 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 06:48:31PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> This works as I wish on the CL:
> head -n4 docs/finance/quotes/y_quotes.{csv,bak} |
> awk -F, '{print $1, $2, $6, $7;}'
> When I try to put it in an alias I can't get it right and have tried
> so many combinations of \s and $() that I'm totally befuddled.
Use a function instead.
frobozz() {
head -n4 docs/finance/quotes/y_quotes.{csv,bak} |
awk -F, '{print $1, $2, $6, $7;}'
}