On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/20/2017 01:27 PM, Minghui Liu wrote: > > > 2. Save env output in a file > > env > env_save > > 'env' is not a bash builtin, so your bug report has no effect here. But > even if you were to send your bug report to bug-coreutils (assuming you > are using the coreutils version of env), they'd just tell you to use > 'env -0', since that is the only delimiter that produces unambiguous > results, and that: > > > 3. Source the file just saved > > . env_save > > this is NEVER safe practice, unless 'env' were patched [...]
Use these commands instead: declare -x > env_save source ./env_save