Need bash shell script for reading name value pairs from a file

Question

I have a file like

name1=value1
name2=value2

I need to read this file using shell script and set variables

$name1=value1
$n         


        

Answer 1

if your file location is /location/to/file and the key is mykey:

grep mykey $"/location/to/file" | awk -F= '{print $2}'