eval $(apmz bash ...) doesn't work

[joelbernstein]

bash-5.1$ eval $( ~/go/bin/apmz bash )
Warning: apmz event collection is enabled, but --api-keys is not specified. You must override the __APP_INSIGHTS_KEY env var or events will not be set to Application Insights on script exit.
bash-5.1$ eval $( ~/go/bin/apmz bash --api-keys MY-API-KEY-WENT-HERE )
bash-5.1$ trace_info foo
bash: trace_info: command not found

[joelbernstein]

However, this does seem to work:

export PATH=$HOME/go/bin:$PATH
apmz bash --api-keys MY-API-KEY-WENT-HERE  > /tmp/bash
source /tmp/bash
trace_info foo

I presume there's something about the output of apmz bash that eval doesn't like. But source does.

[joelbernstein]

GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0)

[joelbernstein]

Having said it "works", I'm not so sure, because I can't find the result of trace_info someuniquetexthere when searching under Application Insights -> "transaction search" in the Azure portal.

Does this tool actually work?

[devigned]

Haven't been using 5.1, so this very well could be the case. I can verify eval works on.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

With that said, the eval is pretty nasty. Probably better to pipe and then source. I just wanted an easy one liner for folks.

As for the main issue, I think it all stems back to #15.

[joelbernstein]

Hi! Thanks very much for checking. If I had to guess, the issue may be related to set -e being on by default. But I agree, bash-fu aside, this is about #15.

I'd be more than willing to submit some documentation examples to replace the eval call.