[SOLVED] .bashrc alias problem

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05-27-2014, 11:30 AM	#1
battles Member Registered: Apr 2014 Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) Posts: 258 Rep:	.bashrc alias problem I am trying to set up this alias, but because it has internal single quotes, it gets an error. alias lmq='mailq \| awk '/\(host/ {print $2}' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n'

05-27-2014, 12:02 PM	#2
suicidaleggroll LQ Guru Contributing Member Registered: Nov 2010 Location: Colorado Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS Posts: 5,573 Rep:	Then use double quotes around it.

05-27-2014, 12:08 PM	#3
battles Member Registered: Apr 2014 Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) Posts: 258 Original Poster Rep:	Thanks. I had just tried and succeeded with that.

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