[noselasd]

And the nice thing about those NAME="value" pairs is you can now source it directly in shells, or read it with some straight forward, usually built in library in many programming languages and supporting tools

[meitham]

Until the value has a bang or any other special character that ends up being expanded by the shell and wasting half a day finding it!

[lelanthran]

> Until the value has a bang or any other special character that ends up being expanded by the shell and wasting half a day finding it!

Just how large are your env files?

[meitham]

It's not the size, it's the content of the values in the env files when they contain things outside of your control, like a password with a bang or a dollar sign.