[GH-ISSUE #215] Use eval to source environment variable #145

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opened 2026-03-01 14:41:02 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @fr0der1c on GitHub (Apr 11, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/215

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https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#creating-a-config-file

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export $(grep -v '^#' ~/.ArchiveBox.conf | xargs); ./archive https://example.com/rss/feed.xml

eval export $(grep -v '^#' ArchiveBox.conf); ./archive https://example.com/rss/feed.xml

The original one doesn't work if there are whitespaces in value, even if the value has been quoted. I found this problem when setting Chrome user profile directory. I'm not a shell hacker but seems the $() subcommand is misinterpreting whitespace and eval solves the problem.

Originally created by @fr0der1c on GitHub (Apr 11, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/215 ## Wiki Page URL https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#creating-a-config-file ## Suggested Edit change ``` export $(grep -v '^#' ~/.ArchiveBox.conf | xargs); ./archive https://example.com/rss/feed.xml ``` to ``` eval export $(grep -v '^#' ArchiveBox.conf); ./archive https://example.com/rss/feed.xml ``` The original one doesn't work if there are whitespaces in value, even if the value has been quoted. I found this problem when setting Chrome user profile directory. I'm not a shell hacker but seems the `$()` subcommand is misinterpreting whitespace and `eval` solves the problem.