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Questions - comm

Why does my command stop working when I put it into an alias?

I am trying to run the following command comm -23 <(pacman -Qqe | sort) <(awk '{print $1}' /desktopfs-pkgs.txt | sort) I get the following output autoconf automake bison chromium code discord fa...
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Caleb Renfroe

zsh

alias

zshrc

comm

pacman-package-manager

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The $1 is substituted by the shell at the time the alias is defined, i.e. awk never sees a $1. You can verify this by displaying your alias with alias paccom You would have to escape the in the alias...
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user1934428

GNU/Linux using comm with a file and the output of a command

I want to use the comm command to compare a text file and the output of a command. My first idea was to run: comm packagesList $(pacman -Qe) However, that outputs an errpr. I also tried using ´pacman...
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Peter Petigru

linux

bash

shell

archlinux

comm

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pacman -Qe | comm packagesList - or comm packagesList <(pacman -Qe) Topics to research: what are standard streams and stdin/stderr/stdout, man comm -> When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read...
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