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I need to export a lot of variables like export x1=1 export x2=2

I moved all variables in file .env and tried

source .env

After it I executed

printenv

and all of this variables were absent in the list of env variables. Also I tried export $(xargs <.env) But I have commented lines in .env file and I got following messages

#': not a valid identifier

So how can I export variables from file and skip commented lines?

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    There is already an answer on the Stack Exchange: How to export variables from a file? Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 10:58
  • What exactly does a sample .env file that fails look like? Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 15:36
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    source ./.env worked for me Commented Nov 3, 2020 at 9:53

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Try naming a file like variables.env and then try export variables.env echo $somevariable_name

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This does not work at all, this just marks the non-existing variable variables.env to be exported.

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