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So far while surfing web I've discovered nice addition to my gpg password generator and I've decided to adjust my alias with these commands.
Here is the code



gpg --gen-random 1 20 | perl -ne'print "Your password: ";s/[x00-x20]/chr(ord($^N)+50)/ge;s/([x7E-xDB])/chr(ord($^N)-93)/ge;s/([xDC-xFF])/chr(ord($^N)-129)/ge;print $_, "n"'


Here is what I've tried so far:



alias genpass()

gpg --gen-random 1 $1


but error occurs when spawning new instance of bash:



bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: `alias genpass()'


I cannot figure out how this token should be properly escaped.










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  • You should double-quote $1.

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So far while surfing web I've discovered nice addition to my gpg password generator and I've decided to adjust my alias with these commands.
Here is the code



gpg --gen-random 1 20 | perl -ne'print "Your password: ";s/[x00-x20]/chr(ord($^N)+50)/ge;s/([x7E-xDB])/chr(ord($^N)-93)/ge;s/([xDC-xFF])/chr(ord($^N)-129)/ge;print $_, "n"'


Here is what I've tried so far:



alias genpass()

gpg --gen-random 1 $1


but error occurs when spawning new instance of bash:



bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: `alias genpass()'


I cannot figure out how this token should be properly escaped.










share|improve this question
























  • You should double-quote $1.

    – 200_success
    Dec 21 '14 at 0:54













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So far while surfing web I've discovered nice addition to my gpg password generator and I've decided to adjust my alias with these commands.
Here is the code



gpg --gen-random 1 20 | perl -ne'print "Your password: ";s/[x00-x20]/chr(ord($^N)+50)/ge;s/([x7E-xDB])/chr(ord($^N)-93)/ge;s/([xDC-xFF])/chr(ord($^N)-129)/ge;print $_, "n"'


Here is what I've tried so far:



alias genpass()

gpg --gen-random 1 $1


but error occurs when spawning new instance of bash:



bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: `alias genpass()'


I cannot figure out how this token should be properly escaped.










share|improve this question
















So far while surfing web I've discovered nice addition to my gpg password generator and I've decided to adjust my alias with these commands.
Here is the code



gpg --gen-random 1 20 | perl -ne'print "Your password: ";s/[x00-x20]/chr(ord($^N)+50)/ge;s/([x7E-xDB])/chr(ord($^N)-93)/ge;s/([xDC-xFF])/chr(ord($^N)-129)/ge;print $_, "n"'


Here is what I've tried so far:



alias genpass()

gpg --gen-random 1 $1


but error occurs when spawning new instance of bash:



bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: /home/user/.bashrc: line 18: `alias genpass()'


I cannot figure out how this token should be properly escaped.







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  • You should double-quote $1.

    – 200_success
    Dec 21 '14 at 0:54

















  • You should double-quote $1.

    – 200_success
    Dec 21 '14 at 0:54
















You should double-quote $1.

– 200_success
Dec 21 '14 at 0:54





You should double-quote $1.

– 200_success
Dec 21 '14 at 0:54










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You have the alias statement when you don't need it, what you're actually creating is a function, replace the word alias with function and it will work as expected.



You also don't actually need function either, you could just have the following and it will work as expected;



genpass()

gpg --gen-random 1 $1





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    You have the alias statement when you don't need it, what you're actually creating is a function, replace the word alias with function and it will work as expected.



    You also don't actually need function either, you could just have the following and it will work as expected;



    genpass()

    gpg --gen-random 1 $1





    share|improve this answer





























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      You have the alias statement when you don't need it, what you're actually creating is a function, replace the word alias with function and it will work as expected.



      You also don't actually need function either, you could just have the following and it will work as expected;



      genpass()

      gpg --gen-random 1 $1





      share|improve this answer



























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        You have the alias statement when you don't need it, what you're actually creating is a function, replace the word alias with function and it will work as expected.



        You also don't actually need function either, you could just have the following and it will work as expected;



        genpass()

        gpg --gen-random 1 $1





        share|improve this answer















        You have the alias statement when you don't need it, what you're actually creating is a function, replace the word alias with function and it will work as expected.



        You also don't actually need function either, you could just have the following and it will work as expected;



        genpass()

        gpg --gen-random 1 $1






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