Saw an command from this post to Generate a list of available commands and what each does that I would like to alias

find {,/usr}/{,s}bin -printf '%f0' | xargs -0 whatis | sort | less

I assume the less or the | is interfering but how can I make the alias command ignore those characters that is causing it issues?

ie. This doesn't work

alias cccc='find {,/usr}/{,s}bin -printf '%f0' | xargs -0 whatis | sort | less'

cccc

It returns

    pell0modem-manager0airserv-ng0usermod0vipw0filefrag0update-software-center0ntpdate-

debian0usbmuxd0foomatic-extract-text0cupsenable0dpkg-divert0dpkg-preconfigure0foomatic-

getpjloptions0ldattach0hplj10200bccmd0vpnc-disconnect0madwifi-

unload0cupsd0tcpd0hplj10180pppstats0service0update-icon-caches0atieventsd0hpljP15050grub-

set-default0userdel0arpd0gpsdctl0remove-shell0cpgr0winbindd0cracklib-format0update-catalog0wesside-ng0vmware-authdlauncher0aireplay-ng0install-docs0hciattach0lpc0install-menu0ck-log-system-restart0foomatic-printermap-to-gutenprint-xml0setvesablank0gconf-schemas0airmon-ng0zic0update-apt-xapian-index0pm-suspend0rebuild-

Instead of

[ (1)                - check file types and compare values

2to3 (1)             - Python2 to Python3 converter

2to3-2.7 (1)         - Python2 to Python3 converter

2to3-3.2 (1)         - Python2 to Python3 converter

411toppm (1)         - convert Sony Mavica .411 image to ppm

7z (1)               - A file archiver with highest compression ratio

7za (1)              - A file archiver with highest compression ratio

a2p (1)              - Awk to Perl translator

accept (2)           - accept a connection on a socket

accessdb (8)         - dumps the content of a man-db database in a human read...

aclocal-1.11 (1)     - manual page for aclocal 1.11.6

aclocal (1)          - manual page for aclocal 1.11.3

when you execute the command by itself.

After the Fact - Supplemental

I also added another useful function for myself to query via a string against that catalogue of commands.

fff() { 

   find {,/usr}/{,s}bin -printf '%f0' | xargs -0 whatis |& grep $1

}

So if you type the command fff pdf it will show you all the related commands about pdf like this

pdfunite (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger

ps2pdf13 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later com...

pdftotext (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (vers...

ps2pdfwr (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying Compatibi...

pdfdetach (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file ...

ps2pdf (1)           - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript

ps2pdf12 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later com...

pdf2dsc (1)          - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

pdfimages (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (versio...

pdftoppm (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM...

foomatic-ppdfile (1) - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo

dvipdf (1)           - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and dvips

qpdf (1)             - PDF transformation software

pdftocairo (1)       - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/...

pdfseparate (1)      - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor

pdftops (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter...

ps2pdf14 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5-and-later com...

pdfinfo (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information ex...

pdftohtml (1)        - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG im...

pdfopt (1)           - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer

pdffonts (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version ...

pdf2ps (1)           - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator

I think this is kind of useful for knowing all the commands that are available