How to paste multiple environment variables in IntelliJ

Question

Is there a way to add multiple environment variables in IntelliJ? When one sends me a list of variables I can add them one by one by clicking + in this window

But it's quite annoying to do for 10 or 20 variables every time. I can copy all variables from Environment variables field but we cannot paste there. Is there any way to do it?

Answer 1

Yes, it's totally possible to paste all environment variables at once in this screen but they need to be in a specific format.

Click on the ... button to the right of environment variables to show the dialog you have in your first screenshot.

Now you can use the Paste button but the values in your clipboard have to be in a specific format for pasting to work. In your case that clipboard info would be something like this:

APP_PORT=8080
DB_URL=jdbc:mysql...
DB_USER=javausers
DB_PASSWORD=javausers
APP_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG

Try copying the value above and use the paste button (not Ctrl+v). If you don't have your data in this format you can try formatting it using a text replace tool online.

Also if you select all of the values in that dialog and click the copy button you can get the values in the same format that will work with importing. Warning: clicking Ctrl+c will not copy the values in the same format as the copy button in the dialog.