Re: In eshell, how to translate aliases that "eval" output from scripts

[Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>]

Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> writes:

> "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com> writes:
>
>> In my bash config, I have aliases whose value is like 
>> ". scriptname".  These execute "scriptname", which is in the 
>> path, the output of which are "export" and other shell 
>> commands. This is a way of having a shell command implicitly 
>> set environment variables that are used by later command 
>> invocations.  What's the proper way to translate this to 
>> eshell?
>
> If I've understood you correctly, you will need to re-implement 
> the scripts/aliases in lisp.

Oh, I should perhaps also mention that eshell has the notion of an 
eshell script, which you might prefer to "native" lisp.

(info "(eshell) Scripts")

Cheers,

        - Joel