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 am using the ll commonly know alias for this example but you may use your alias instead, just replace ll in the following line with your alias (foo) and it should work:

find . -exec `alias ll | cut -d"'" -f2` {} \;

your case:

find . -exec `alias foo | cut -d"'" -f2` {} \;

Note it assumes your alias is quoted using the following syntax:

alias foo='your-very-long-command'