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awk alias passing a value to a variable

I am trying to turn this into an alias with no luck. I would then like to put the alias into my bashrc file. I know awk is very picky about quotes. I have tried every version of quotes, single quotes, double quotes, and backslashes that I can think of.

Code:

VAR=$(xrandr | awk '$2=="connected"{s=$1} END{print s}'); xrandr --output $VAR --mode 1024x768 --rate 60; xrandr --output LVDS1 --left-of $VAR; xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary; unset VAR;

This what it looks like just trying to copy it into an alias. I would really prefer an alias over a function or creating a shellscript.

Code:

$ alias xx2='VAR=$(xrandr | awk '$2=="connected"{s=$1} END{print s}'); xrandr --output $VAR --mode 1024x768 --rate 60; xrandr --output LVDS1 --left-of $VAR; xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary; unset VAR;'
bash: alias: END{print: not found
bash: alias: s}); xrandr --output $VAR --mode 1024x768 --rate 60; xrandr --output LVDS1 --left-of $VAR; xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary; unset VAR;: not found

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xrandr

XRANDR(1)						      General Commands Manual							 XRANDR(1)

NAME

       xrandr - primitive command line interface to RandR extension

SYNOPSIS

       xrandr [-help]  [-display display] [-o orientation] [-q] [-v] [-s size] [-x] [-y] [--screen snum] [--verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       Xrandr  is  uses  to set the screen size, orientation and/or reflection.  The -s option is a small integer index used to specify which size
       the screen should be set to.  To find out what sizes are available, use the -q option, which reports the sizes available, the current rota-
       tion,  and  the	possible  rotations  and reflections.  The default size is the first size specified in the list.  The -o option is used to
       specify the orientation of the screen, and can be one of Inormal inverted left right 0 1 2 3".

       The -x option instructs the server to reflect the screen on the X axis.	The -y option instructs the server to reflect the screen on the  Y
       axis.  Reflection is applied after rotation.

       The  -help  option prints out a usage summary.  The --verbose option tells you what xrandr is doing, selects for events, and tells you when
       events are received to enable debugging.

SEE ALSO

       Xrandr(3)

AUTHORS

       Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team and Cambridge Research Laboratory, HP Labs, HP.  and Jim Gettys, Cambridge Research Laboratory,  HP  Labs,
       HP.

XFree86 							    Version 1.0 							 XRANDR(1)

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