Question

Same question as this, however the solution there didn’t work.

I set these variables in my ~/.vimrc:

set shellcmdflag=-ic
set shell=/bin/bash\ -i

and I have an alias in my ~/.bash_aliases:

rgr() { if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then grep -rI --exclude=\*.svn\* "$1" * --include=$2 ; else grep -rI --exclude=*svn* "$1" * ; fi ; }

which works when executed from the command line, but when I try to call it from Vim with :!rgr test, I get an error message and Vim exits:

bash: rgr: command not found

[4]+  Stopped                 vi ~/somefile

If I disable the interactive mode, I just get the “command not found” message and Vim doesn’t exit.

How can I get Vim to recognize my aliases? I’ve reproduced this behavior on both OS X and Ubuntu.

Answer 1

I got this to work, via the man page for bash:

set shell=/bin/bash\ --rcfile\ ~/.bash_profile

Similarly, --init-file works.

Note that \ -i is not necessary, though it can be added to the command:

set shell=/bin/bash\ --rcfile\ ~/.bash_profile\ -i

Example:

~/.bash_profile contains

  source ~/.bash_aliases

~/.bash_aliases contains

  alias rdc="open -a \"Remote Desktop Connection\""

~/.vimrc contains

  set shell=/bin/bash\ --rcfile\ ~/.bash_profile
  map ,r :!rdc &<cr>