Ability to set environment variables in wp-cli.yml #5566

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1. danielbachhuber

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2. danielbachhuber commented on Jan 19, 2023

   

   danielbachhuber

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   Thanks for the suggestion, @tomsommer

   I'd be open to this if someone wants to submit a pull request!

   To clarify the implementation: we wouldn't want to have wp-cli.yml set environment variables. Rather, we'd want to update WP-CLI to check wp-cli.yml for a value if the corresponding environment variable wasn't set.

   Sometimes environment variables are not available in the shell for wp-cli

   For posterity, could you provide a bit more detail as to when this isn't the case?
3. danielbachhuber commented on Jan 19, 2023

   

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   Related #6130
4. swissspidy

   marked Set WP_CLI_PACKAGES_DIR in config file #5645 as a duplicate of this issue on Nov 15, 2025
5. swissspidy commented on Nov 15, 2025

   

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   Related: #5645
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7. swissspidy

   closed this as completedin #6169on Mar 13, 2026