[SOLVED] [Bash] How to include quote?

littlebigman · 08-05-2010, 09:59 AM

Hello

I've been Googling for this for over half an hour, and still can't get this alias to work :-/

I'd like to add an alias "lld" to only list directories:

Code:

# cat /etc/bash.bashrc
[...]
#BAD alias lld = 'ls -l | egrep '^d''
#BAD alias lld = 'ls -l | egrep \'^d\''
#BAD alias lld = "ls -l | egrep '^d'"
#BAD alias lld = "ls -l | egrep \'^d\'"
#BAD alias lld = "ls -l | egrep '\'^d'\'"

I make sure I log off and log back on, but I'm still getting "No command 'lld' found, did you mean:".

Does someone know how to add an alias that includes a quote, or an alternative to eqrep that doesn't require quotes altogether?

Thank you.

Wim Sturkenboom · 08-05-2010, 10:08 AM

No spaces seems to work

Code:

fortyfourgalena@desktop1:~$ alias lld='ls -l | egrep '^d''
fortyfourgalena@desktop1:~$ lld
drwxr-xr-x 10 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2010-06-12 17:20 1_downloads
drwxr-xr-x  2 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2010-05-29 11:21 2_mail
drwxr-xr-x  2 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2010-07-28 15:49 3_tax2009_2010
drwxr-xr-x  3 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2010-03-14 07:42 44galena_website
drwxr-xr-x  3 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2008-11-11 21:38 botswana2008
drwxr-xr-x  4 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2008-11-29 16:18 camera test
drwxr-xr-x  7 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2008-10-21 21:05 car
drwxr-xr-x  2 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2010-06-15 15:58 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  4 fortyfourgalena fortyfourgalena    4096 2009-06-08 17:10 documentation
...
...
fortyfourgalena@desktop1:~$ alias lld
alias lld='ls -l | egrep ^d'
fortyfourgalena@desktop1:~$

crts · 08-05-2010, 10:27 AM

Hi,

if you want to avoid the pipe you could also try

Code:

alias lld='ls -ld */' # long listing
alias lld='ls -d */'  # short listing

Also keep Wim's advice in mind about the spaces and '=' sign. There are none.

littlebigman · 08-06-2010, 05:41 AM

Thanks guys. Too bad Bash doesn't say that the error was simply due to its not allowing spaces before/after the "=" sign :-/

The "-d" option is not exactly was I need, since it not only displays directories but also symlinks.

MTK358 · 08-06-2010, 07:30 AM

Works without quotes:

alias lld='ls -l | grep ^d'

littlebigman · 08-07-2010, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTK358

Works without quotes:

I didn't try

Thank you.