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Silently ignores variables from specified files when alreaady present in the environment #2

@PeterJCLaw

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@PeterJCLaw

For example:

$ dotenv-exec --no-default --file <(echo 'BEES=13') -- env | grep BEES
BEES=13

$ BEES=42 dotenv-exec --no-default --file <(echo 'BEES=13') -- env | grep BEES
BEES=42

I realise in this cut-down it's a bit more obvious what's going on, however if the parent environment value is truly from the environment and the file value is in a real file then it's much less clear.

It might be nice if dotenv-exec warned about such cases and/or offered a CLI flag to choose the desired behaviour -- especially as empty values are still preserved:

$ export BEES=42
$ BEES= dotenv-exec --no-default --file <(echo 'BEES=13') -- env | grep BEES
BEES=

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