withenv(1) withenv(1)
NAME
withenv ‐‐ run command with modified environment
SYNOPSIS
withenv [‐‐<file>] command...
DESRIPTION
withenv runs reads in a environment file from your current working
directory, loads the contained variables into the environment and runs
the provided command with the new environment.
Default environment file name is ’.env’
OPTIONS
‐‐<file>
Loads ’.<file>.env’ instead of default environment file
FILES
The ‘.env‘ file contains ‘NAME=value‘ pairs each on its own line.
The name is specified as the text before the *first* equals. Thus
‘foo=bar=baz‘ will result in a variable named ‘foo‘ set to the value
‘bar=baz‘.
Blank lines are ignored
All leading trailing white space is removed
Comments are line based. Comment lines use the first non‐whitespace
character ’#’
EXAMPLES
‘withenv ./server‘
will run server with the default ’./.env’
‘withenv ‐‐local ./server‘
will load variable fom the file ’./.local.env’
AUTHORS
Homepage: https://github.com/wnh
Email: harding.will@gmail.com
TODO
Make shell scripts work without addind ‘sh‘ infront of them Proper han‐
dling of quoted values for compatibility with some other environment
tools
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