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Re: difficult alias

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: difficult alias
Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 13:26:15 -0700
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In-reply-to: <afeheq9ihjP78rmH@ikki.ket>
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On 2026-05-03 12:26, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

Hi,

Am So den  3. Mai 2026 um 15:23 schrieb Ray Andrews:

% alias tst='echo $var | fold -sw 80 | sed '\':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\n /g\'''
zsh: command not found: N
zsh: now is the time not found

Is it just me or are you using an unquoted ";"?

I gave up trying to fix it. There's three levels of quotes as it is. As Eric said, just make it a function and there's no issue.


Regards
    Klaus

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