From 233c6c10ce75f00d057ec17a05f86905e26c0868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Irvine <nick@segment.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:15:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add directions for terminal env vars (#247)

---
 README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ac95520..c8d55003 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ file formats are supported:
 File is written to standard output by default but you may specify an output
 file.
 
+To set env vars in your terminal you can eval the dotenv export format. For example, 
+```shell
+eval `chamber export foo -f dotenv`
+echo $foo_var
+```
+
 ### Importing
 ```bash
 $ chamber import <service> <filepath>