How can I use aliased commands with xargs?
- by Nathan Fellman
I have the following alias in my .aliases:
alias gi grep -i
and I want to look for foo case-insensitively in all the files that have the string bar in their name:
find -name \*bar\* | xargs gi foo
This is what I get:
xargs: gi: No such file or directory
Is there any way to use aliases in xargs, or do I have to use the full version:
find -name \*bar\* | xargs grep -i foo
Note: This is a simple example. Besides gi I have some pretty complicated aliases that I can't expand manually so easily.
Edit: I used tcsh, so please specify if an answer is shell-specific.
