Question about bash aliasing evaluating as a literal

[dsulli99]

Hi, I am trying to create a bash alias, however the graveyard ticks are being evaluated as a literal when I define the alias. I've tried escaping these with a \ however it did not work. Could somebody possibly tell me if it is possible to do the following command in a bash alias? I realize I could probably use a function, or a shell script referenced by the alias, but I would like to do it in the alias itself if possible:

# alias rdpkill="for i in `ps -ef | grep rdesktop | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do kill $i; done"
# alias | grep rdpkill
alias rdpkill='for i in ; do kill 28601; done'

[underworld288]

This should work...


alias rdpkill=$(for i in `ps -ef | grep rdesktop | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do kill $i; done)