bash: variable defining environment variables

Question

In Bash, this work:

FOO=foo BAR=bar a_command

But how to make it works?

ENV="FOO=foo BAR=bar"
$ENV a_command

I got:

FOO=foo: command not found

Cozzamara · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-18 07:19:17Z

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See if this helps:

  sh -c "$ENV a_command"

answered Jan 18, 2013 at 7:19

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glenn jackman · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-18 10:18:18Z

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This is what the env command is for

env $ENV a_command

Note that the behaviour you see is documented in the manual -- the shell looks for variable assignments before expanding variables.

answered Jan 18, 2013 at 10:12

glenn jackman

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