bash alias not working(open git status output files as vim tab)

Question

I am trying to make this alias working:

alias ciao="vim -p `git status --short | awk '{print $2}'; git show --pretty="format:" --name-only`

Basically I would like to open every files, printed by git status , as vim tab. The command works properly when I run it in the prompt directly but I cannot make an alias of it.

Looks like vim -p is applied to the first file printed but not to the others (when the files from git status are more than one).

I would love if somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong: in the alias I pasted there are obvious problems (like escaping), sorry about that.

Answer 1

alias ciao='vim -p $(
    git status --short | awk "{print $2}";
    git show --pretty="format:" --name-only
)'

Answer 2

Anything more complicated than ls -l should be a function, not an alias.

ciao () {
  vim -p $(git status --short | awk '{print $2}'
            git show --pretty="format:" --name-only)
}