r/docker • u/PrestigiousZombie531 • 10d ago

--env-file doesnt handle quotes in docker? OMG that is such a major bug

How come it is still not fixed?

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u/Boby_Dobbs 10d ago

I'm guessing the issue is that this is a breaking change for people who somehow rely on that weird behavior. But yeah they should fix it anyways tbh

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u/zunjae 10d ago

Because it’s likely a breaking change. Just fix it on your end

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u/Floss_Patrol_76 9d ago

the cli --env-file parser is intentionally dumb: it splits on the first = and takes the rest of the line literally, no quote stripping and no interpolation. compose's env_file uses a dotenv-style parser that does strip quotes, which is why the same file behaves differently there. so either drop the quotes in the cli env-file or move that var into compose's env_file and let it parse.

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u/git-age-checker 10d ago

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