On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:55:09 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>This is kind of a hack, but you could spawn /bin/env with no arguments and
>redirect the output to an anonymous pipe and then read that into a buffer.
>The output with be a repeated stream of "KEY=VALUE\n"
>
But be careful. If a programmer has been mischievous enough to do such as:
wombat="xyzzy
foo=bar" export wombat
env will show:
...
wombat=xyzzy
foo=bar
....
Better:
sh -c "export -p"
...
export wombat='xyzzy
foo=bar'
...
which is parseable.
-- gil
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