Set environmental variable for BLAST analysis via Julia

Hello
I am using a shell command called blastx to find some organism’s names from a sequencing experiment. This program requires the definition of an environmental variable BLASTDB pointing to a specific directory inside my machine (~/blast/bin).

I tried with run(export BLASTDB=“~/blast/bin”) but I get:

julia> run(`export BLASTDB="/home/gigiux/src/blast/bin"`)
ERROR: IOError: could not spawn `export BLASTDB=/home/gigiux/src/blast/bin`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
Stacktrace:
 [1] _jl_spawn(::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:367
 [2] (::getfield(Base, Symbol("##493#494")){Cmd})(::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:509
 [3] setup_stdio(::getfield(Base, Symbol("##493#494")){Cmd}, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:490
 [4] #_spawn#492(::Nothing, ::Function, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:508
 [5] _spawn at ./process.jl:504 [inlined]
 [6] #run#503(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at ./process.jl:662
 [7] run(::Cmd) at ./process.jl:661
 [8] top-level scope at none:0

I then created a shell script fetcher.sh that runs blast and directly sets BLASTDB; when I run it on the terminal it works:

$ ./fetcher.sh 
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria

but if I launch it from julia I get stuck; stopping the process I get:
julia> x_blast = read(pipeline(.../fetcher.sh), String)
Critical: [blastx] External MBEDTLS version mismatch: 2.16.0 headers vs. 2.16.2 runtime
ERROR: InterruptException:
Stacktrace:
[1] try_yieldto(::typeof(Base.ensure_rescheduled), ::Base.RefValue{Task}) at ./event.jl:196
[2] wait() at ./event.jl:255
[3] wait(::Condition) at ./event.jl:46
[4] wait_readnb(::Base.PipeEndpoint, ::Int64) at ./stream.jl:297
[5] read at ./stream.jl:715 [inlined]
[6] read(::Pipe) at ./io.jl:231
[7] read(::Cmd) at ./process.jl:635
[8] read(::Cmd, ::Type{String}) at ./process.jl:645
[9] top-level scope at none:0

Is there a way to properly run an external script?