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    He could just use single quotes, i.e. export STY='for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done' Commented Feb 25, 2012 at 1:44
  • @Perry Six one way, half-dozen the other. Commented Feb 25, 2012 at 1:45
  • is it possible that we can execute the code contained in environment variable on command line? Commented Feb 25, 2012 at 1:57
  • By the way, if I do export such as export pqr="time ls" and if I specify this variable in some script then the code executes but if I place a for loop within this environment variable then shell yells at me and say for command not found. Commented Feb 25, 2012 at 2:31
  • @Shazard, this answer implies you use SST as function. DATA=`STY()` (note left quotes - they get standard output of expression). To execute non-function variable (closer to your example) use eval $STY Commented Feb 25, 2012 at 2:58