I just remembered. Adding a -f <file> option to the GNU Coreutils env utility has previously been discussed: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-

I just remembered. Adding a -f <file> option to the GNU Coreutils env utility has previously been discussed: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-10/msg00001.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-10/msg0000... It came up in the mailing also this March. I saw the posting in my inbox and proposed that a null-terminated format be handled, which is exactly like /proc/<pid>/env: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2024-03/msg00140.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2024-03/msg0014... If that feature were available, this becomes env -f .env command arg ...