Weird interaction of xargs with complete ( shell builtin )

[Abhijith Sethuraj]

Hi!

Suppose I have a file(say, file1) with the following contents,

abcd
defg
hijk

and I'm trying to 'cat' the file and pass it to xargs so that xargs can
invoke 'complete'. But, I'm getting the following error.

cat file1 | xargs -I %% complete -A alias %%
xargs: complete: No such file or directory

Am I missing out on something? Please do help me out.

Regards,
Abhijith