Would like an empty form of 'bake' that allows changing arguments

[virtuald]

Here's what I would like to be able to do:

redir = sh.bake(_out=something)
redir.cat('file')  # output goes to 'something'

Currently bake seems to require a subcommand, which is undesirable for general overriding. Also, the args contextmanager is very similar to what I want -- but it overrides globally, which is not what I want.

[amoffat]

I think you are looking for this #271 which will be in the 1.2 release. It would let you do...

redir = sh(_out=something)
from redir import cat as my_cat
my_cat('file')

[virtuald]

That is precisely what I would be looking for.