--env-file does not support escaping quotes

[marvinroger]

Version

20.9.0

Platform

Darwin REDACTED 23.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Mon Oct 9 21:27:24 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.41.9~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

With a .env of:

ESCAPE_TEST="{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"

Run:

node --env-file .env -e "console.log(process.env.ESCAPE_TEST)"

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Always

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

I would expect the \ in \" to be stripped:

{"foo":"bar"}

What do you see instead?

{\"foo\":\"bar\"}

Additional information

No response

[pluris]

It seems to operate incompatible with dotenv.
It behaves differently from the behavior defined in the document, and it does not seem to be the behavior we want.
Please refer to below.

• Document : https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv#what-rules-does-the-parsing-engine-follow
• PR : src: add support for escaping quotes with escape slash in --env-file #50814

[marvinroger]

Indeed, my bad! I fell into the same require('dotenv').parse trap as the one mentioned in the PR.
Thanks, closing!