alias error

[arvind-singh]

Hi friends,

The method of "alias " is GREAT.
I have tried to make a custom command to know file size in MB

I tried this

alias lsmb='ls -l | awk '{printf "%s %i %s %s %.3fMB %s %i %s %s\n", $1,$2,$3,$4,$5/1024000,$6,$7,$8,$9}' '

and when I did

source .bashrc

it shows me error

bash: alias: %s %i %s %s %.3fMB %s %i %s %s\n,: not found
bash: alias: ,,,,/1024000,,,,}: not found

I guess the error is due to the awk and single quotes

Any idea how to do it ??

[Bemk]

alias lsmb="ls -l | awk '{printf "%s %i %s %s %.3fMB %s %i %s %s\n", $1,$2,$3,$4,$5/1024000,$6,$7,$8,$9}' "

Here I replaced the outer quotation marks in to double marks " which works well in HTML (haven't tried here, but I hope it is similar)

alias lsmb='ls -l | awk\ '{printf "%s %i %s %s %.3fMB %s %i %s %s\n", $1,$2,$3,$4,$5/1024000,$6,$7,$8,$9}\' '

Here is the \ in front of the quotation mark saying it shouldn't end the string there, but include the quotation mark into the string.

Hope either of them work, as I haven't tested it.