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Mr. Alex

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 623

Alias was changed automatically

Hi.
I created some alias in ~/.bashrc looking like

alias backup='blah-blah-blah && echo 'All is done correctly.''

Then I rebooted my PC and it automatically became

alias backup='blah-blah-blah && echo ''All is done correctly.'

Quotes changed. Why? What was incorrect? Is it autocorrection?

kmason

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From: Tempe, Arizona, USA

Registered: 2010-03-23

Posts: 256

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Re: Alias was changed automatically

Try this:

alias backup="blah-blah-blah && echo 'All is done correctly.'"

Usually when surrounding quotes with quotes, the outside quotes have to be double and the inside have to be single.