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Expand environment variables in docker plugin config string

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the Docker CLI plugin configuration parsing entry point and reproduce the example using ${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/docker/cli-plugins. Done means an environment variable in a plugin config string resolves to its value, such as /opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins; add or run focused coverage for this configuration path.

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kind/feature status/0-triage
Description

Especially I want that docker cli can read from the config entries like the following one:

${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/docker/cli-plugins -> resolved to /opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins

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