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Alias escape puzzle

Here is "escape puzzle" from real life task:

Conditions:
We need to create an alias which will

Save current directory path
Will ssh to particular server
Then will cd to saved path (it's mounted via NFS)
Then will find all files with name patter as "All*.bld" and run particular editor opening each of found files.

From command prompt next command do the trick:

Code:

set PWD=`pwd` ; ssh luna1 "cd $PWD ;find . -name 'All*.bld' -ok multi {}  \; "

However it generates an error running form ~/.alias

Code:

#!/bin/tcsh
alias a alias
a mallluna 'set PWD=`pwd` ; ssh luna1 "cd $PWD ; find . -name 'All*.bld' -ok multi {} \; &" '

I didn't succeed to escape ' ' in file name pattern.

Any ideas/solutions?

Thank you in advance.

BaruchLi

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