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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./conf/prac1

My script minientrega.shminientrega.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.

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.

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.

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fixed typo in the title (was "key/pair values", changed to "key/value pairs")
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Set environment variables from file of key/pair valuesvalue pairs

Made edit at the request of the OP, to make the question more general
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Set environment variables from file of key/pair values

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.

Set environment variables from file

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.

Set environment variables from file of key/pair values

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.

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