set environment variable to the shell (not just in node process)

[FabienDehopre]

It would be nice if the environment variables are also exported to the shell.
This is useful when using grunt-bower-task when being behind a proxy. Since bower uses git to download the packages.

[stephanebachelier]

@LordDawnhunter still interested in this ?

[dayjobtitus]

I am.

[pcolazurdo]

Me too

[ArmorDarks]

+1

[xcambar]

Same here

[stephanebachelier]

@xcambar @pcolazurdo @iamchrismiller @FabienDehopre @ArmorDarks do you have any use case to share ?

The task is already exporting to node process.env variable the content of any .env file.

For example runnning grunt writeDotEnv env:testDotEnv testDotEnv is working because this will be the same process.

But running the following command on a *nix os won't work:
grunt writeDotEnv env:testDotEnv testDotEnv; env

[xcambar]

It would be useful with grunt-concurrent, grunt-contrib-watch or grunt-shell, the 3 of which spawn processes.

My specific use case involves grunt-shell, which created processes must have some environment variables.

[stephanebachelier]

@xcambar thanks for you explanations

[bradoyler]

👍

[constantx]

👍

[namlet]

Agree with @xcambar - have the same need.