> On Oct 20, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> 
> 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

I apologize for posting at the wrong place.
This is very helpful. Thank you.

Minghui

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