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From: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:00:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63ff95cc-f3d8-f34d-0aa5-a58fdaf21dd9@rayninfo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8432871497e50ae7a6136a9e03a09ad6@dondley.com>


On 11/09/2021 19:41, Steve Dondley wrote:
> I have many aliases set up for taskwarrior in zsh:
>
> alias tasn="task +sn add"`
>
> On the command line, I'll type in:
>
> tasn some task description here
>
> Which works unless I put in single quote or some other character:
>
> tasn call Tom's friend

I tried a heredoc

alias mucky=<<EOD

echo tom's friend

EOD


But it doesn't work :(



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-11 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-11 18:41 Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 19:00 ` zzapper [this message]
2021-09-11 19:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 19:28   ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 20:45     ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 20:53       ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 21:01         ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 22:39           ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-11 23:15             ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12  0:23               ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-12  1:27                 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12  2:26                   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-12  3:02                     ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 23:17             ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-11 23:33               ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12  3:33               ` Ray Andrews

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