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From: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Building an awk alias in (t)csh
Message-ID: <3064@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 19:58:01 GMT
Reply-To: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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I would like to make an alias like this:

alias	where	"who | grep \!:1 | awk '{print $6}' -"

which would output the originating host of the user caled for.  I have
tried all kinds of permutations of quote characters, etc, with no luck.  I
ended up making the awk portion into a one-liner script and piping to that
instead.

This command works fine on the command line, but not as an alias.  Can
anybody tell me what I am doing wrong/should do?

Thanks very much,
			--eric
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