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

This doesn't work because xargs expects to be able to exec the program given as its parameter.

Since foobar in your case is just a bash alias or function there's no program to execute.

Although it involves starting bash for each file returned by find, you could write a small shell script thus:

#!/bin/bash
. $(HOME)/.bashrc
func $*

and then pass the name of that script as the parameter to xargs