Using awk in BASH alias or function?

You need to escape the $ like so: alias a="awk '{print \$1}' /tmp/textfile" Otherwise your alias is: awk '{print }' /tmp/textfile Which prints the whole file...

AH-HA! Duh! Thanks!

– Corn-fuzed Aug 30 '11 at 14:19 2 The protocol to say thanks in these parts is to mark the answer as the correct one (by clicking the little check mark to the left). =) – Costa Aug 30 '11 at 15:05.

Use a function instead of alias myfunc(){ awk '{print $1}' file; }.

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