On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:42:02PM +0000, Van Klaveren, Brian N. wrote: > [bash-test@227f958499c1 ~]$ cat sourceme > #!/bin/bash > FOO=bar > FOO=bar2 > set -a > env | grep FOO
You probably want to put set -a at the top, before the variables are set. The -a flag isn't retroactive. It only applies to variables that are set *while* it's turned on. The typical ways that set -a is used are: 1) Around a block of variable assignments within a script, in order to avoid having to type "export" several times. 2) Right before sourcing (dotting in) a second file which contains only variable assignments, so that all of those variable assignments are copied to the environment, without having to modify the sourced file.
