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feat: `export FOO=bar` should modify the shell process's env

See original GitHub issue

this doesn’t work - should it?

> export MSG=hello
> echo $MSG

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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starpitcommented, Jan 14, 2019

also, we should consider if we can support this in browser mode; that might be kinda neat.

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starpitcommented, May 5, 2019

yes thanks for catching that. we should eliminate all such collisions in favor of their bash interpretation.

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