define aliases for shell-command?

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Is there a way to define aliases so that shell-command can recognize them? shell recognizes those defined in .emacs.d/init_bash.sh; is it possible to make shell-command aware of these also?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '10 at 10:08

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Read in simple.el in shell-command code :

    ;; We do not use -f for csh; we will not support broken use of
    ;; .cshrcs.  Even the BSD csh manual says to use
    ;; "if ($?prompt) exit" before things which are not useful
    ;; non-interactively.  Besides, if someone wants their other
    ;; aliases for shell commands then they can still have them.
    (call-process shell-file-name nil
          (if error-file
              (list t error-file)
            t)
          nil shell-command-switch command)

The nil after shell-file-name indicates that emacs don't send an input file to the process. Thus, you should check the value of shell-file-name to determine if it's a process that read implicit .rc files.

answered Sep 06 '10 at 10:08

Jérôme Radix

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My shell-file-name is "bin/bash" but I'm still not sure how to interpret these instructions...? – hatmatrix Sep 06 '10 at 11:25
man bash to know exactly what is done when bash process starts. – Jérôme Radix Sep 06 '10 at 15:09
Thanks - I created a link file so that /bin/bash can use it. – hatmatrix Sep 09 '10 at 13:42
Can you clarify the /bin/bash case? Pointing to man bash isn't too helpful. – Clément Oct 20 '16 at 04:38
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Answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12224909/is-there-a-way-to-get-my-emacs-to-recognize-my-bash-aliases-and-custom-functions – Clément Oct 20 '16 at 04:40

define aliases for shell-command?

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