How to add special characters in ~/.bashrc file?

Question

I am trying to make a bash alias to grep for Git conflicts within files after a merge occurs. Usually on the command line with bash shell, I run grep -nr '<<<<<<<', where the single-quotes are needed to escape the special characters.

My ~/.bashrc file has this so far:

alias confs="grep -nr \'<<<<<<<\'"

However, the output when runing confs command is

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<<<'.

How do I do this? Thanks

Answer 1

The solution was very simple thanks to schrodigerscatcuriosity. The way to do this would be: alias confs="grep -nr '<<<<<<<'". No extra escape characters are needed