On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Brandon Mulcahy <bran...@jangler.info> wrote:
> choice (besides doing something like `export option=a; command; export
> option=b`). I do wish the concept of aliasing were a bit more general.


Did you hear of the shell feature where you could immediately pass
environment variables by prepending them to your command?
Like so:

export option=b;
option=a command;
echo $option # shows b

cheers!
mar77i

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