Re: difficult alias

Also as a function you can just supply the value as a parameter instead of
hard coding the use of $var. you could even default to a predefined named
variable if no parameter is specified, e.g.

tst() {
    fold -sw 80 <<<"${1:-$var}" | sed '...'
}

Which will operate on whatever you pass to it but if you don't pass
anything will use the value of $var.


Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>

On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 16:29 Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

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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.
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> >
> > Regards
> >     Klaus
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