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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2772 comp.unix.solaris:21584 comp.unix.programmer:19470 comp.unix.misc:13611 comp.unix.aux:15114 comp.unix.bsd:14674 comp.unix.aix:42956 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!not-for-mail From: chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Date: 24 Aug 1994 10:18:37 +1000 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33e3kt$i1i@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33agia$a8t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au pat@po.CWRU.Edu (Paul A. Thompson) writes: >I have recently discovered xargs, which takes a list of files and >runs a given command on them - very handy. However, I would like to >do the same with an alias that I have defined under csh - these are >not recognized under xargs. How can I put a csh and related source >command in the xargs specification? In bash, ksh, and zsh you can put this in your start up file: alias xargs='xargs ' The space before the quote tells the shell that xargs is a command that executes other commands, and therefore any alias after an xargs command will also be expanded. I don't know how to do this in csh, but who would want to use csh anyway?