I could be wrong but I don't think you can set shell variables from the pipe, right? echo "export FOO=bar" | bash echo $FOO I am trying to set the var

I could be wrong but I don't think you can set shell variables from the pipe, right? echo "export FOO=bar" | bash echo $FOO I am trying to set the variables in the current shell eval $(echo "echo 'export FOO=bar'" | bash) echo $FOO So my script writes variables to stdout and redirects everything else to stderr. I use this to update a `.bashrc` while also updating the current shell