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So I was able to get a command finally with the ability to get and grep the information from a specific file I wanted and then I ran into a problem with alias:

find ./ -type f -name filename.ext -exec grep 'information' + | sort | awk -v OFS='n' 'print $5, $1, $2, $3 '

From there I was able to figure out that I needed to change my alias after looking it up and I did it as such:

find ./ -type f -name filename.ext -exec grep 'information' + | sort | awk -v OFS='n' 'print $5, $1, $2, $3 '

So now it prints but I still wanted to use the OFS but I am not sure the syntax to get the OFS to load. Thanks in advance!

 alias aliascommand="find ./ -type f -name filename.ext -exec grep 'information' + | sort | awk -v OFS='t' 'print $5 $1 $2 $3 '"

A variation of the above is what I put into my alias.

If you do:

alias foo="...'print $5 $1 $2 $3 '"

The positional parameters will be expanded when the alias is set. They are within a double-quoted string, after all. You don't want that, so you had to escape them with backslashes. Alternatively, you could have put the whole alias text in single-quotes, but since you want to use single quotes in the alias, that gets rather difficult.

That n should be fine within the double quotes, though.

In any case, you should probably use a function instead. That way you don't need to think about the extra level of quoting around the commands.

mycommand() 
 sort