Getting quotes into an alias definition?

[Robert E. Butts]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 13:58 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

> Is it possible to get quotes into the definition of a bash alias?
> 
> I've tried a few things like this:
> 
>   alias foo='foo --option=\'*.txt\''
> 
>   alias foo="foo --option='*.txt'"
> 
> but haven't figured out a way that works.



Not sure, honestly, but I note here that one of the permutations you do
not say you've tried is double quotes inside single quotes, like this:  

alias foo='foo --option="*.txt"'


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