On 01/06/2015 02:28 PM, Paul wrote: > Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> writes: >> Both solutions are great. I'll set the --append-exe in my bash >> aliases, and for systems outside of my normal working environment >> (e.g., working with someone on their unix sessions), I know I can >> force display of .exe using asterisk. > > Drat. If I pipe files to 'xargs ls', the unaliased ls command is used: > > type -pa pdfcrop | xargs ls
alias xargs='xargs ' Then the alias expansion of xargs will in turn allow alias expansion of the next argument. (Except that you then have to also create trailing-space aliases for all options you commonly pass to xargs between 'xargs' and the final command name). Sadly, xargs is one of the cases where shell functions won't help (xargs doesn't execute the shell function). Your other solution is to modify $PATH to point to a directory under your control as the first thing, where 'cat /your/ls' contains: #!/bin/sh exec /bin/ls --append-exe "$@" such that your script then gets picked up by xargs, and you no longer have to worry about aliases. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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