Support for arbitrary strings as environment variable values

[michaelmcneela]

At the moment, evar values with newline characters seem to be rejected by the nanobox CLI, and the Dashboard replaces newlines with whitespace (flattening multi-line text to one long line)

Please can evar values be made to support arbitrary strings?– an example use of non-single-line evars being PEM-encoded encryption certificates

Thanks!

[glinton]

Currently, a workaround for this would be to load the evar from a file (new functionality), you can read more about the supported file formats here. Other than the ways we discussed on slack, i'm not sure it can be supported via the add command.

Working methods (iirc):

nanobox evar add local KEY1="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nM\nW\nA\na\n5\nZ\nA\n5\nJ\nU\nC\na\nr\nR\nD\nS\nY\nb\n0\nK\n4\nM\nM\n1\nD\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"

nanobox evar add local KEY2="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
M
W
A
a
5
Z
A
5
J
U
C
a
r
R
D
S
Y
b
0
K
4
M
M
1
D
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
"