TL;DR: How do I export a set of key/value pairs from a text file into the shell environment?
For the record, below is the original version of the question, with examples.
I’m writing a script in bash which parses files with 3 variables in a certain folder, this is one of them:
MINIENTREGA_FECHALIMITE="2011-03-31"
MINIENTREGA_FICHEROS="informe.txt programa.c"
MINIENTREGA_DESTINO="./destino/entrega-prac1"
This file is stored in ./conf/prac1
My script minientrega.sh then parses the file using this code:
cat ./conf/$1 | while read line; do
export $line
done
But when I execute minientrega.sh prac1 in the command line it doesn’t set the environment variables
I also tried using source ./conf/$1 but the same problem still applies
Maybe there is some other way to do this, I just need to use the environment variables of the file I pass as the argument of my script.