.env

Whenever the yb_stats executable is run with --hosts, --ports or --parallel specified, it will use the value of the flag(s) set, but it will also write the specification of hosts, ports or parallellism into a file called .env.

When yb_stats is executed with a .env file in the current working directory, it will set the environment variables listed in that file. If any of:

• YBSTATS_HOSTS
• YBSTATS_PORTS
• YBSTATS_PARALLEL

Are set in the .env file, it will use the set value. This way, specifying either or all of the hosts list, ports list or parallellism only need to be done once, and will be set automatically for every next invocation executed from the same directory.

If a flag is specified with yb_stats that is also set in .env, the flag specified with yb_stats will be given preference, and the entry in .env will be overwritten with this new value.

WARNING

Please mind that if something outside of yb_stats is using .env for its own purposes and sets its own values in the file, running yb_stats with the current working directory holding a .env file used by a third party, will overwrite the file and only set the yb_stats values, removing any settings not used with yb_stats.