Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:07:35 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc Message-ID: <4B3AA7D7.6090505@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310912291656n24acc27dn5f80ce78fb22825c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B3AA3CD.3020709@ibctech.ca> <4ad871310912291656n24acc27dn5f80ce78fb22825c@mail.gmail.com>
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Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Steve > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote: >> Hi all, happy holidays! >> >> I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: >> >> alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm >> > > Try enclosing it in quotes, such as: > > alias srm "find . -name \"*~\" | xargs rm" This works. Instead of escaping, I just encapsulated within single-quotes: acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % grep srm /home/steve/.cshrc alias srm '/usr/bin/find . -name "*~" | /usr/bin/xargs rm' Olivier: I didn't test your theory, but thanks for the tip. I've just become accustomed over the years to use xargs when making bulk rm's ;) Steve
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