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

["KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com>]

Yes, I saw the part about defining aliases.  That is the trivial part of this question.

From: tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2024 3:26 PM
To: KARR, DAVID <dk068x@att.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In eshell, how to translate aliases that "eval" output from scripts

"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


"KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com<mailto: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?



See:

     (info "(eshell) Built-ins")



and

     (info "(eshell) Aliases")



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