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You have an extra space after the name of the alias pu, so the =3Dword tri= ggered 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 correc= tly. alias pu=3D'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 funct= ion is in my opinion.