Environment variables not passing through to turbo command as described in documentation

[cereallarceny]

I've been trying to get dotenv-cli working as per the suggested setup on Turborepo's monorepo handbook. I've got the following package.json:

{
  "name": "xxx-company",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=18.17",
    "pnpm": ">=8.14"
},
  "scripts": {
    "build": "dotenv -- turbo run build",
    "dev": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect dev --parallel",
    "dev:dev": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect:dev dev --parallel",
    "dev:prod": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect:prod dev --parallel",
    "studio": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect db:studio --parallel",
    "studio:dev": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect:dev db:studio --parallel",
    "studio:prod": "dotenv -- turbo run db:connect:prod db:studio --parallel",
    "lint": "dotenv -- turbo run lint",
    "test": "dotenv -- turbo run test",
    "clean": "turbo run clean && rimraf node_modules",
    "pull-envs": "vercel env pull .env",
    "prepare": "husky install",
    "preinstall": "npx only-allow pnpm"
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx,html,md}": [
      "prettier --write --ignore-path .gitignore"
    ]
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^18.17.8",
    "dotenv-cli": "latest",
    "husky": "^8.0.3",
    "lint-staged": "^15.2.0",
    "prettier": "^3.2.4",
    "rimraf": "latest",
    "turbo": "latest",
    "vercel": "latest"
  }
}

I get a very odd error in my terminal when running pnpm build, pnpm dev, or any of the other commands with dotenv --:

 ERROR  a value is required for '--remote-only [<BOOL>]' but none was supplied
  [possible values: true, false]

For more information, try '--help'.

 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.

Of course, I could just pass the --remote-only flag, but then I get the same warning about the --summarize flag. Without attaching every flag that Turborepo's CLI offers, how can I fix this?

A few interesting notes/things I've already tried:

• Using npm or yarn instead returns the same result
• Using dotenv ... instead of dotenv -- ... returns the same result
• Running pnpm dev and any other the other commands returns the same result as pnpm build - it's not isolated to the build script
• Downgrading dotenv-cli and turbo 1-3 minor versions each returns the same result
• Restarting my editor, typescript, or any auxillery services returns the same result
• Clearing my node_modules folder and running pnpm install again returns the same result
• Running turbo run build works perfectly, but then it doesn't include the environment variables in the build
• Interestingly enough, running dotenv -- pnpx cowsay hello works perfectly fine, so I don't think this has to do with dotenv-cli so much as turbo not using its default flags correctly when unspecified

[mehulkar]

I don't see anything obviously wrong with your setup. If you don't see the same issue with running turbo directly, then this has something to do with the dotenv -- separator and how additional flags are being passed (or not passed). Please open an issue and provide a simplified reproduction repo if you want someone on the core team to look more closely and try running it.

[anthonyshew]

Closing for staleness.