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Why does export fail when used as the last step in a command pipeline?
echo FOO=bar | xargs export
# => xargs: export: No such file or directory
I can rewrite it this way to accomplish what I want:
export `echo FOO=bar`
But why can’t I use export in the first way?
export is a shell builtin and xargs expects an actual binary.