On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:21:20PM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 05:14 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: > > 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 > > And if your shell of choice doesn't happen to support that feature, or > if you just want to do it in a way that will work regardless of the > shell, there is the env command: > env a=1 b=2 c=3 command
Nevermind then! Thanks for the tips.
