xargs doesn't recognize bash aliases

Question

I\'m trying to run the following command:

find . -iname \'.#*\' -print0 | xargs -0 -L 1 foobar

where \"foobar\" is an alias or function def

Answer 1

Using Bash you may also specify the number of args being passed to your alias (or function) like so:

alias myFuncOrAlias='echo'  # alias defined in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ...
echo arg1 arg2 | xargs -n 1 bash -cil 'myFuncOrAlias "$1"' arg0
echo arg1 arg2 | xargs  bash -cil 'myFuncOrAlias "$@"' arg0