Set Environment Variables in Your Bash Shell From a .env File (Version 2)
Published: 2021-01-14
This post is version 2 of Set Environment Variables in Your Bash Shell From a Env File.
The advantage is it supports quoted values that contain spaces.
# .env file
# Some comment
FULL_NAME="First Middle Last"
FOO=bar
# setenv.sh script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Show env vars
grep -v '^#' .env
# Export env vars
set -o allexport
source .env
set +o allexport
# Usage
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Unset env vars
unset FULL_NAME; unset FOO;
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Set env vars in your Bash shell
source setenv.sh;
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Confirm env vars
echo ${FULL_NAME}; echo ${FOO};