Azure / Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Multiple/nested alias execution
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Description
### Extension name (the extension in question)
alias
### Description of issue (in as much detail as possible)
Is it possible to allow for nested execution or piped execution?
For example, I created this function to start all VM's in a RG, which I'd like to convert to an alias:
```
azStartRG() {
RG="${1:-$RG}"
az vm start --ids $(
az vm list --query "[].id" -o tsv -g $RG
)
}
```
I can get all of the vm-ids like this:
```
[vm-ids {{rg}}]
command = vm list --query [].id --resource-group {{rg}} -o tsv
```
But I don't know how to do something like this:
```
[start-rg {{rg}}]
command = vm start --ids $(az vm-ids {{rg}})
```
When I try the above alias, I get:
```
Alias Manager: Transforming "start-rg {{rg}}" to "vm start --ids $(az vm-ids {{rg}})", with the following positional arguments: {'rg': 'acs-engine-19'}
Alias Manager: Transformed args to ['vm', 'start', '--ids', '$(az', 'vm-ids', 'acs-engine-19)'] in 5.342ms
```
Any pointers?
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