npm run source

gistfile1.txt

➜  npm-script cat package.json 
{
  "name": "npm-script",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "echo": "source .env && echo $FOO"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}


➜  npm-script cat .env 
export FOO=bar


➜  npm-script npm run echo

> [email protected] echo /home/mchelen/tmp/npm-script
> source .env && echo $FOO

sh: 1: source: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] echo: `source .env && echo $FOO`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] echo script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/mchelen/.npm/_logs/2018-05-11T20_36_32_712Z-debug.log

Hey Mike, I'm having this exact same error. Did you ever figure out how to fix it? Thanks!

@tonycassara Ah this is an old one, I think mainly my approach was to handle env vars within the application (and not at the script level)using https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv
one alternative if you really want to read the env var in the npm script might be https://stackoverflow.com/a/54812256/2043808