Accessing aliases within a shell script - Page 2

cooldude · #1 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008

Is there a way to send the command to the shell where the script is being executed?

cooldude · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008

I've dozens of aliases defined. I don't want to create a script for each of them.
But here's what I trying to do. I'm writing a script that runs commands in a sequence. If one of the commands throw an error, the next commands are not executed. I've wrote a Python script that is called the following way:
$ script "command1 ; command2; command3"
Some of those commands can be aliases. Is there a way to do this without writing a script?
I'd still like to know if the command can be ran in the environment where the script was executed, though.

cfajohnson · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008

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Originally Posted by cooldude

I've dozens of aliases defined. I don't want to create a script for each of them.

As the bash man page says:
For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions.

If you are using bash, you can export functions. I don't know if that would work in this case.

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But here's what I trying to do. I'm writing a script that runs commands in a sequence. If one of the commands throw an error, the next commands are not executed.

Use a shell script.

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I've wrote a Python script that is called the following way:
$ script "command1 ; command2; command3"
Some of those commands can be aliases.

No, they cannot be aliases.

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Is there a way to do this without writing a script?
I'd still like to know if the command can be ran in the environment where the script was executed, though.

Only if you write a shell script instead of a python script.

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