Getting environment variable in arguments?

[jpetitcolas]

How can we handle environment variables from a concurrently command?

I need the full path of working directory in order to launch a Docker container. So, I need to use the $PWD environment variable.

With concurrently:

{
    "scripts": {
        "start": "concurrently 'echo ${PWD}'"
    }
}

It outputs ${PWD}. Yet, if I don't use concurrently:

{
    "scripts": {
        "start": "echo ${PWD}"
    }
}

It works. Any idea on how I can solve this? :)

[kimmobrunfeldt]

Good question, I thought environment variables would be available in the commands. This should be fixed.

[kimmobrunfeldt]

Could you test if this has been fixed by installing 3.0.0-dev version: npm i -g concurrently@3.0.0-dev ?
It should be better now because it is using https://github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/spawn-default-shell for spawning shell. At least simple echo worked for me.

[kimmobrunfeldt]

These issues should be now fixed in 3.0.0-rc1. You can test by installing it: npm i -g concurrently@3.0.0-rc1. Please open a new issue to concurrently repo if this is not the case. I'll release the 3.0.0 soonish.