如何在 Ubuntu 中创建 .env 文件？

Question

I have an app deployed on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance. I use dotenv for development, but manually input my environment variables in production to avoid exposing them on GitHub.

My goal is to create a.env file outside my app directory so that I don't have to manually input my environment variables each time I deploy new code.

I've configured dotenv as follows:

require("dotenv").config({ path: "../../environment-variables/Ticketing-App/.env" });

Running "sudo touch.env" inside the Ticketing-App directory neither creates the file nor generates an error.

Is it possible to create a.env file on Ubuntu? If so, how?

Answer 1

Touch creates the file. You created a hidden file by adding the period in front of the file name. If you do cat.env you should get a print in the terminal. Doing nano.env will allow you to edit the file.