[plug] alias problem

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Tue Jan 14 21:10:44 WST 2003


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Can someone tell me what I need to put into the following to get it to work?
> 
> 
> alias md_bz='bzip2 -dc $1 | md5sum | cut -d' ' -f1'

Use double quotes inside the single quotes.  They mean the same in that
context (quoting a single space).

alias md_bz='bzip2 -dc $1 | md5sum | cut -d" " -f1'



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