It can be supported with internal APIs, even without macros: Cmds::from_cmd(Cmd(...).current_dir(..)) .pipe(Cmd(...).current_dir(...)) .run_cmd(...) As you can

It can be supported with internal APIs, even without macros: Cmds::from_cmd(Cmd(...).current_dir(..)) .pipe(Cmd(...).current_dir(...)) .run_cmd(...) As you can see, it is very verbose and that's why I choose to hide the lower APIs at this moment.