environment-injector README

Extension for injecting single environment variables into your session and sourcing/reading .env files into it.

Features

Inject environment variable

Choose an environment variable, and a value for it; it'll be set in your environment.

Replace environment variable

Pick from a quicklist of currently defined environment variable, type in a replacement value.

Source an environment file (Command Palette / File Tree Context Menu)

Input a path to a .env file (or access it by right-clicking a file in your file tree and choosing "Source environment file"), all of it will be read into your environment.

The file should be formatted as follows:

VARIABLE1="some value for variable one here"
OTHER_VARIABLE="42"
...

It can also optionally have leading "export" or whitespace and generally be badly formatted, though with the exception of leading export I don't see why you would have more exotic formatting of an .env file.

 VARIABLE1="some value for variable one here"
   export OTHER_VARIABLE="42"
...

Note: Applications/Terminals opened before sourcing a file will not be affected. Be sure to open applications/terminals after if you want it to get the sourced values injected. Note that I haven't been able to get powershell to pick up sourced environment variables at all, though this may be a matter of configuration. I've used it with WSL & bash

Output your current environment in the 'Output' panel

Output your current environment to the output panel to inspect it. The panel will should automatically open.

Get current environment

Get your current environment in an info box to inspect it. Copy the text from the notification and paste it somewhere to see a non-truncated version.