Op di april 24 2007 11:33, schreef Rolf Masfelder:
> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 09:24 schrieb Vince Oliver:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I would like to set some aliases in .bashrc that shall do some
> > usefull things like:
> >
> > alias al="echo $PATH | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print
> > $i}'"
>
> this is usefull?
>
> > This alias in not executed.  How to define such aliases?
>
> use `backticks` (I hope you see them ;-) ... `echo ...`
>
Better still, use $(...) instead of backticks `...`. Precisely for the reason 
Rolf states.
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