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Old 04-24-2007, 02:17 AM   #1
ovince
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Hi all

I would like to set some aliases in .bashrc that shall do some usefull things like:

alias al="echo $PATH | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}'"


This alias in not executed. How to define such aliases?


thanks
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Old 04-24-2007, 02:27 AM   #2
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preusmably just need to escape special characters:

alias al="echo $PATH | awk 'BEGIN{FS=\":\"} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print \$i}'"
 
  


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