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How do I pass environment variables from a VS Code extension to an external CLI tool that the extension spawns today?

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How do I pass environment variables from a VS Code extension to an external CLI tool that the extension spawns today?
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VS Code extension API ExtensionContext environment variables child_process spawn env official documentationGoogle ↗
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  1. Supporting Remote Development and GitHub Codespaces · code.visualstudio.com
  2. Child process · nodejs.org
  3. VS Code API · code.visualstudio.com
  4. Node.js child_process documentation · nodejs.org

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