Using a variable as a fragment of a command

[xmnlab]

Hi everyone!

Using bash, I am able to create a variable and assign it, for example, the initial part of a command, and use that in the console and add to that more arguments, for example:

export MAKIM="makim --makim-file ./tests/.makim-simple.yaml"
${MAKIM} --help

I was able to do it with xonsh with:

@$(echo $MAKIM + ' --help')

is there a better (short) way to do that?

thanks!!

[gforsyth]

Hey @xmnlab ! Your syntax is correct, but you could make use of the abbrevs xontrib and do:

xontrib load abbrevs
abbrevs["makim"] = "makim --makim-file ./tests/.makim-simple.yaml"
makim<space> --help

[xmnlab]

that looks very nice! thanks @gforsyth for your answer!! really appreciate that!