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eval "$(envdir-helper)"
+This program also supports setting non-exported shell variables, using the
+`--no-export` flag. This is useful for prompts and other shell configuration
+that should not be propagated through to subshells and other programs. This behaviour is the default if the env directory's name ends in `rc`:
+
+ eval "$(envdir-helper .envdir.rc)"
+
## Security
As alluded to above, one of the use cases for this is env-specific tokens. These