child_process set parent process environment variable

[guileen]

In bash, I can execute sh ~/.profile can change my environment. But I execute below code in nodejs not change my process.env

child_process.spawn('sh', ['/home/user/.profile'])

[tjfontaine]

Right, that's unfortunately just not going to work, node is a different beast with different requirements from bash. If you want environment variables from that subshell you will have to do some extra work, something like:

var cmd = 'source .profile; node -pe "JSON.stringify(process.env)"';
child_process.exec(cmd, function(code, stdout, stderr) {
  console.log(JSON.parse(stdout));
});