Great - I'm glad that's a better fit for you :) You can accomplish 'executing an app directly' with a sub-shell like this: $ (eval $(envkey-source) && run-a

Great - I'm glad that's a better fit for you :) You can accomplish 'executing an app directly' with a sub-shell like this: $ (eval $(envkey-source) && run-app-command) That way, the variables won't be exported in the parent shell.