I'd like to mention that the "ls -1 a/" example was an overly simplistic example.

A better example might be:

> mydiff "cleartool lsprivate -tag view1 | egrep '\.o$|\.oo$|\.so$|\.d$' | xargs cleartool ls -short -dir" "cleartool lsprivate -tag view2 | egrep '\.o$|\.oo$|\.so$|\.d$' | xargs cleartool ls -short -dir"

I made this up, but it's not totally unreasonable. The only difference between the 2 command lines is the tag name (view1 vs view2). If this were a commonly needed command, it would most likely be turned into an alias (or another script pointed to by that user's path), thus we would have:

> mydiff "mylist view1" "mylist view2"

Of course, this all depends on being able to run the @ARGV elements as if they were run directly from the parent shell.

In reply to Re^2: spawning shell commands with aliases by xafwodahs
in thread spawning shell commands with aliases by xafwodahs

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