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Good morning

I would like kindly to ask you to help me with creation of alias with awk command.

alias a="awk {print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }"


there is some error but I don't find it please explain me what is error and how can be avoid next time.

Thanks in advance.

Code:

alias a='awk {print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }'

That is not working.

The command actualy is awk '{print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }'
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ls -alrt | a
syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
>>> {print <<<
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.
The source line is 1.
awk: There is a missing } character.
<un0001a@hpprd011b>[/share/t11/dol/5.0/UN0001/exec] ls -alrt | a
syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
>>> {print <<<
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.
The source line is 1.
awk: There is a missing } character.

try putting the command in an executable file and alias the command as running the file?

Hello that way is working but how can be done without file?

Try...

Code:

function a { awk -v OFS='| ' '{print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $13, "" }'; }
ls -alrt | a