[ale] Bash/source question

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

They're output as:
X=1
Y=2

I'll try the "eval" approach suggested by Danny Cox.

Geoffrey wrote:

> Does the command output the data to standard out?  What is the format? 
> Is it 'var=value' ?  Or does it just output the values?  You can 
> assign a bunch of values to the positional vars as follows:
>
> set $(your_command)
>
> If your_command outputs just the var values to standard out.  Then you 
> can access the values with $1, $2,...$N, where the first output value 
> is $1 and so on.
>
> 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?
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
>>
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