Artisan command says : Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes

Question

I'm trying to know the list of artisan command by using php artisan list . and the command return me the following error [Dotenv\Exception\InvalidFileException] Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes. What is wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should remove all spaces from .env file to make an app work again.

If you have to use spaces, instead of this:

VAR=some data 

Use quotes:

VAR="some data"