What this snippet does
--env-file reads KEY=VALUE pairs from disk, keeping secrets out of shell history.
Expected output
connected to postgres://db:5432/app
Why practise typing this
Typing env & arg code builds muscle memory for the symbols and indentation Docker uses most, which prose-based typing tests never cover. DevType measures your words per minute and accuracy on this snippet and tracks the individual characters you mistype, so later lessons can target them.
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