How to make an alias from a statement with many : " and many : '

Question

How to make this an alias in zsh?

svn status | grep "^?" | awk -F "      " '{print $2}' | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 svn add

I know it should be something along the lines:

alias sall = "the command"

But as the line mixes " with ' I don't know how to handle that.

Answer 1

You can use " for your awk command.

alias sall='svn status | grep "^?" | awk -F " " "{print $2}" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 svn add'

should work.

Answer 2

Use a function.

sall() {
    svn status | sed -rn 's/^\? {7}//p' | xargs -d '\n' svn add
}

(Since svn uses newline as output separator, it makes no sense to convert it to null and back.)