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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Alias problem with awk command Post 302481385 by Scott on Friday 17th of December 2010 11:06:51 AM
Old 12-17-2010
The shell is evaluating $1, $2, etc, when you create the alias, not when you use it.

Try:
Code:
alias list="ls -al | awk '{ print \$1, \$2, \$3, \$4, ((\$5/1048576))\"\t\", \$6, \$7, \$8, \$9 }'"

(I tried with other combinations of quoting, but that didn't seem to work).

Not tested on AIX, but I can't imagine the syntax would be any different.

In fact, I will move this thread from the AIX sub-forum to the Shell Scripting sub-forum.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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