Single quotes not working in shell script

Question

I have a .bash_profile script and I cannot get the following to work alias lsls = 'ls -l | sort -n +4 '

when I print the alias lsls it performs sorting, but then sends this error message "- bash: +4: command not found" How to get the alias for working with "+4"?

It works when type ls -l | sort -n +4 on the command line

I'm on OS X 10.4

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

bash-4.0$ ls -l | sort -n +4
sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory

You need ls -l | sort -n -k 5gnu sorting is different from bsd sorting

alias lsls='ls -l | sort -n -k 5'

Edit: Updated to reflect the change from indexing based on 0 to indexing based on 1, thanks Matthew.

Answer 2

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+4'

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Answer 3

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