Revisions to Setting an environment variable before a command in Bash is not working for the second command in a pipe

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edited Mar 25, 2016 at 20:12

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

Usage example:

FOO=bar bash -c 'echo $FOO'

Output:

bar

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

Usage example:

FOO=bar bash -c 'echo $FOO'

Output:

bar

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

Add example with accessing a variable.

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edited Mar 25, 2016 at 17:22

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

Usage example:

FOO=bar bash -c 'echo $FOO'

Output:

bar

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

Usage example:

FOO=bar bash -c 'echo $FOO'

Output:

bar

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created Jun 1, 2012 at 19:39

FOO=bar bash -c 'somecommand someargs | somecommand2'

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