Shell aliases as shell-commands

[Sebastian Tennant]

Hi all,

I thought it would be trivial to implement a 'M-x alias' function that
would make aliases defined in one's ~/.bashrc available to 'M-x
shell-command' calls, but it's proving to be lot trickier than I
thought.

Does anyone know of an existing extension that provides this kind of
functionality?

Any tips/pointers/suggestions much appreciated.

Regards,

Sebastian