How do I escape a field variable in an awk command in an alias?

Question

Here are the contents of a file:

one two three
four five six

And here is my alias

alias testawk "awk '{print $2}' file"

This is what I get:

> testawk
one two three
four five six

But when I give this command, then I get what I want:

> awk '{print $2}' file
two
five

How do I escape the field specifier in the alias? NOTE: I'm using csh

Answer 1

Wrap the alias w/ ' and use '\'' for the embedded '.

alias testawk 'awk '\''{print $2}'\'' file'