Renee Margaret McConahy

> I appreciate the suggestions but export/declare would unnecessarily complicate things . . . . @ale5000-git: May I ask how? This: ```sh declare var1 var2 var3 VAR4 ``` looks better...

I was curious enough to look through Bash's changelog: the old behavior of expanding the here string is [described as a bug]() and was [fixed]() in bash-4.4-beta.

If your services are running, the simplest would be to use Docker-compose's [`exec`](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/exec/) command to run arbitrary commands inside the running container. I believe this would solve your problem: ```sh...