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Questions - pacman-package-manager

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

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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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