Get environment variables from the shell
Especially useful for Electron apps as GUI apps on macOS doesn't inherit the environment variables defined in your dotfiles (.bash_profile/.zshrc/etc).
$ npm install shell-env
import {shellEnv} from 'shell-env';
console.log(await shellEnv());
//=> {TERM_PROGRAM: 'Apple_Terminal', SHELL: '/bin/zsh', ...}
console.log(await shellEnv('/bin/bash'));
//=> {TERM_PROGRAM: 'iTerm.app', SHELL: '/bin/zsh', ...}
Note that for Bash, it reads .bash_profile, but not .bashrc.
Return a promise for the environment variables.
Returns the environment variables.
Type: string
Default: User default shell
Shell to read the environment variables from.
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Get environment variables from the shell
The npm package shell-env receives a total of 9,474 weekly downloads. As such, shell-env popularity was classified as popular.
We found that shell-env demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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