Can I run just commands in current shell?

[ccxuy]

I want to do something like below, so I can retrieve some variable set from same shell: var=a

justfile: show: echo $var

[laniakea64]

Why doesn't it work to export the shell variable as an environment variable?

Running commands in the same shell from which just is invoked is not possible in general, but for very simple cases, you could do something like

@show:
  echo eval {{quote('echo "$var"')}}

then run it as $(just show)

[ccxuy]

@laniakea64

@show:
  echo eval {{quote('echo "$var"')}}

echo eval 'echo $aaa'
eval echo $aaa

doing this could not read var from the same shell from which just is invoked.

In my scenario, I need to source some script, which import a bunch of variables and function in current shell, and since it only work on current shell and not exported, I could not easily pass it to subshell.

In another scenario, I need to do something like:

do_some_setting:
  a=123

do_a:
  echo $a

I could not pass variables between recipes, even just variables itself is not persistent among just commands. My workaround right now is to save thease variables in file and read it in every recipes, but the case is I may need to reuse these variable for many times :

do_some_setting:
  save_a_in_config

do_a:
  read_a_in_config

do_b:
  read_a_in_config

[laniakea64]

since it only work on current shell and not exported,

What happens if you try to export the variables it sets?

For example, if the script does

var=test
var2='other test'

then, with the justfile in your original comment, you could do

$ export var var2
$ just show
echo "$var"
test

[ccxuy]

What happens if you try to export the variables it sets?

It should works fine. The problem is there are many variables and functions been set by a script, which means I need to export all of them, also it may contaminate other sciprt environment.

I tried dot-env file to preserve the envrionment but it seems not working very well. Some special characters could cause problem when auto loading them.