[ale] Bash/source question

[Geoffrey]

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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