What's wrong with this line?

police8677 · 10-22-2003, 03:22 AM

Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this line?:
alias dlbkup="ls -l ~/ | grep {a-zA-Z]"~"$ | awk '{print "rm "$NF}' | tcsh"

The command :
ls -l ~/ | grep {a-zA-Z]"~"$ | awk '{print "rm "$NF}' | tcsh
for itself works.

Why can't I alias it?

cristi1979 · 10-22-2003, 03:34 AM

try
alias dlbkup=`ls -l ~/ | grep {a-zA-Z]"~"$ | awk '{print "rm "$NF}' | tcsh`
it is not ', but `

police8677 · 10-22-2003, 04:28 AM

this is the improved line:
alias dlbkup=' ls -l ~/ | grep .~$ | awk '{print "rm "$NF}' | tcsh'

now it saves the alias without a worning but the command doesn't work afterwards.

any idea?

cristi1979 · 10-22-2003, 06:15 AM

are you shure it's working?
' ls -l ~/ | grep .~$ | awk '{print "rm "$NF}' | tcsh'
^ ^ ^ ^
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I don't think it is going to work. And I sow my line is not working

. Sorry

But this I think will work:
alias dlbkup="ls -l ~/ | grep {a-zA-Z]\"~\"$ | awk '{print \"rm \"$NF}' | tcsh" --first example

camelrider · 10-23-2003, 01:04 PM

That single quote should be the one from the upper left of a US keyboard, on the key with the tilde.