Jeff King <[email protected]> writes:

> OK, last email tonight, I promise.
>
> Here's the subshell version. I'm a little embarrassed not to have
> thought of it sooner (though the other one was a fun exercise).
>
>       test_env () {
>               (
>                       while test $# -gt 0
>                       do
>                               case "$1" in
>                               *=*)
>                                       eval "${1%%=*}=\${1#*=}"

Is this an elaborate way to say 'eval "$1"', or is there anything
more subtle going on?

>                                       eval "export ${1%%=*}"
>                                       shift
>                                       ;;
>                               *)
>                                       "$@"
>                                       exit

... or 'exec "$@"'

>                                       ;;
>                               esac
>                       done
>               )
>       }

You can dedent the whole thing and remove the outermost {} pair.

Other than that, looks good to me.

>
> -Peff
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