Why is the default environment file for Docker Compose called .env?

seanballais (Sean Francis N. Ballais) October 14, 2019, 6:55am 1

Hi, all! Out of curiousity, why did the developers call the default environment file as .env? Why not something else like env.config?

Thanks!

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