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How to use spaces in a bash alias name?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026115173 views
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Problem

I am trying to create an aliases in bash. What I want to do is map to In my .bashrc file this is what I attempted: However it does not work because (I assume) it has spaces in the alias name. Is there a work around for this?

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ls -la

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Fix for: How to use spaces in a bash alias name?

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The Bash documentation states "For almost every purpose, shell functions are preferred over aliases." Here is a shell function that replaces and causes output to be piped to if the argument consists of (only) . As a one-liner: Automatically pipe output:

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