Binary releases?

[coolaj86]

It would be really awesome to have this as a binary that could run like this:

dotenv .env -- someprogram --foo bar

Do you have any interest in supporting that? I'd be willing to help.

[shesek]

Why not (source .env && someprogram --foo bar)? (requires using export in your .env files to make them shell-compatible, which dotenv accepts too. use . instead of source if you're using sh.)

[coolaj86]

1. It's not a cross-platform approach.
2. It requires a shell, which you don't always have with service managers like systemd.

[mhutter]

It's not a cross-platform approach.

That's true but every platform offers built-in tools to read ENV vars from a file

It requires a shell, which you don't always have with service managers like systemd.

Most service manager already support reading env vars from a file. For systemd, there is EnvironmentFile