env 命令替代 windows powershell/cmd

Question

I saw one cool thing in Linux and wondering if it is also available in Windows. In order to run another program in a custom environment without modifying the current one, in Linux we use env command, like this: env USERNAME="Test" PASSWORD="Test" npm run e2e:test . Here basically what it does is that e2e tests start running (it can be any type of process in any technology, not just e2e tests in nodejs) but with test user credentials and not with predefined actual user credentials.

How can I achieve this in Windows?

Answer 1

Call cmd.exe with a command-line script it will execute in its context. Effectively this:

cmd.exe /c "set USERNAME=Test && set PASSWORD=Test && npm run mytest"

Answer 2

I solved this and many other OS related issues by installing WSL and using it via powershell.