Quotes are preserved with environment variables

[kylegibson-rldatix]

A .env file with spaces can't be sourced unless the values are quoted, but then the quotes are preserved in the rendered output, but not preserved in the shell:

$ cat test.env
FOO="one two three"

$ source test.env
$ echo $FOO
one two three

$ cat test.conf 
BAR = {{ FOO }}

$ j2 test.conf test.env 
BAR = "one two three"

If I change test.env to remove the quotes, then sourcing no longer works:

$ cat test.env
FOO=one two three

$ j2 test.conf test.env
BAR = one two three

$ source test.env
Command 'two' not found, did you mean:
...

How can I create a .env with values that have spaces that is consistent between the shell and the j2 output?

[kylegibson-rldatix]

Temporary workaround:

$ cat test.conf 
BAR = {{ FOO.strip('"') }}