[apatheticonion]

I could be wrong but I don't think you can set shell variables from the pipe, right?

    echo "export FOO=bar" | bash
    echo $FOO

I am trying to set the variables in the current shell

   eval $(echo "echo 'export FOO=bar'" | bash)
   echo $FOO

So my script writes variables to stdout and redirects everything else to stderr. I use this to update a `.bashrc` while also updating the current shell