[ale] Bash/source question

[Danny Cox]

David,

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:14, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a command that produces output which is a list of env variable 
> assignments.  I would like to get those variables assigned to the 
> executing shell script.  The only way I can figure out, is to send the 
> output to a file, and then source it.  Is there a better way?

	'eval'?

	eval $(env) almost works, but the values really need to be quoted.  If
your command quotes 'em, eval will work.

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Danny

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