[bug?] dotenv command $VARIABLE about dotenv-cli HOT 1 CLOSED

Hey! Thanks for the bug report. The problem is with the way the shell works. If you run

$ dotenv echo $MESSAGE

your shell will first interpolate the value $MESSAGE and then run the command with the value interpolated

$ dotenv echo ""

so dotenv-cli will get the arguments echo "" so it's impossible to know that $MESSAGE was passed.

What you could do: launch a bash shell with the command "echo $MESSAGE". For this to work, you need to escape the $ or use single quotes

$ dotenv -- bash -c "echo \$MESSAGE"
$ dotenv -- bash -c 'echo $MESSAGE'

I hope this helps

from dotenv-cli.