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creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters

Hello all, I wan to create an alias of this command: alias dockps = “docker ps --format “table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Status}}t{{.Ports}}””

The syntax for creating an alias is: alias $COMMAND = “docker ps --format “table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Status}}t{{.Ports}}””

However, since there are quote marks, I assume they neet to be escaped with ``. But in the case above, I’m getting the errors in fish and bash.

Fish error: $ alias dockps = “docker ps --format “table {{.ID}} {{.Names}} {{.Status}} {{.Ports}}””

alias: expected <= 2 arguments; got 3

Bash error: $ alias dockps = “docker ps --format “table {{.ID}} {{.Names}} {{.Status}} {{.Ports}}”” bash: alias: dockps: not found bash: alias: =: not found bash: alias: docker ps --format “table {{.ID}} {{.Names}} {{.Status}} {{.Ports}}”: not found

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: For fish shell users out there, this can be accomplished by using func: $ function dockerps docker ps --format “table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Status}}t{{.Ports}}” end $ funcsave dockerps

I’m leaving the question up as the question with escape characters is still relevant and can be a learning resouce.

PlusMinus ,

Just a thought: It should be possible to save the default ps output does that not fit your use case better?

man 5 docker-config-json

man.archlinux.org/man/…/docker-config-json.5.en

krash OP ,

OMG! I didn’t even know about this, thanks! Will look into it, would be awesome to have ps command spit out things like I want them by default :-)

humanplayer2 ,

I think you have to alternate the quotations you use between doubles and singles, pairwise. Else the first pair is closed after --format.

So you have to use a pattern like “command level 1 ‘level 2 “level 3” more level 2’ more level 1”

Does that make sense?

friend_of_satan , (edited )

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    humanplayer2 ,

    TIL! Thank you!

    clmbmb ,

    As the others have said, your first issue is using blank spaces before and after =

    Then, when you need to use double quotes in a command, the alias should be defined with single quotes, like this:

    
<span style="color:#323232;">$ alias dockps='docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}  {{.Names}}  {{.Status}}  {{.Ports}}"'
</span>
    krash OP ,

    Thank you (and all others who replied), this worked flawlessly :-)

    tkk13909 ,

    Try using ‘apostrophes’ for the outer set of quotes and see if that works

    JDubbleu ,

    Not at my computer so I can’t double check, but I believe you can replace the outer double quotes with single quotes. I’d also remove the spaces before and after the equal sign for the alias. I don’t know about fish but I know bash doesn’t like when you add spaces there.

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