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

[James Thomas]

KARR, DAVID wrote:

> 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?

(info "(eshell) Scripts") defines the '.', (info "(eshell) List of
Built-ins") defines 'export', and then, of course, there's (info
"(eshell) Aliases"). No translation should be necessary, isn't it?

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