Using an alias in find -exec

Question

I have a very long command in bash, which I do not want to type all the time, so I put an alias in my .profile

alias foo=\'...\'

Now I want

Answer 1

I ran into the same thing and pretty much implemented skjaidev's solution.

I created a bash script called findVim.sh with the following contents:

[ roach@sepsis:~ ]$ cat findVim.sh                                                                                                        #!/bin/bash                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
find . -iname $1 -exec vim '{}' \;

Then I added the the .bashrc alias as:

[ roach@sepsis:~ ]$ cat ~/.bashrc | grep fvim                                                                                         
alias fvim='sh ~/findVim.sh'

Finally, I reloaded .bashrc with source ~/.bashrc.

Anyways long story short I can edit arbitrary script files slightly faster with: $ fvim foo.groovy