csh question -- aliasing, quoting and the like

[DAVID NEWALL]

In article <498 at westc.UUCP>, gjoost at westc.UUCP (Gertjan van Oosten) writes:
> The basic problem is as follows: I want an alias to kill all processes
> called 'roy'.
>
> % alias killroy 'kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`'
>
> The problem comes down to having single quotes within single quotes.

What's wrong with cut?  Use cut before you go diving for awk.

% alias killroy 'kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | cut -c1-5`'


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