Re: Alias help

[Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>]

On 4/26/21 6:55 PM, Hoji, Aki wrote:
> alias pu ="pip3 list -o | sed "1,2 d" |cut -d ' ' -f1 |  xargs -n1 pip3 install -U”

As a shell function:
pu() {                                                                                                                 ~
   pip3 list -o   |
   sed "1,2 d"    |
   cut -d ' ' -f1 |
   xargs -n1 pip3 install -U
}

While not to the degree of say python, whitespace matters often in shell;
You have an extra space after the name of the alias pu, so the =word triggered a different
feature of zsh that expands the path to a command. in this case "pip3 list -o | sed 1,2"
once you remove the space you still have the problem of not quoting correctly.

alias pu='pip3 list -o | sed "1,2 d" |cut -d '\'' '\'' -f1 |  xargs -n1 pip3 install -U'

Is how to quote that command properly, which is less readable than a function is in my opinion.