Fix some escaping around env var processing

Clarify in the docs that ENV is not recursive

Closes #10391

Signed-off-by: Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com>
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Doug Davis 2015-01-28 18:28:48 -08:00 committed by Tibor Vass
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@ -146,6 +146,17 @@ The instructions that handle environment variables in the `Dockerfile` are:
`ONBUILD` instructions are **NOT** supported for environment replacement, even
the instructions above.
Environment variable subtitution will use the same value for each variable
throughout the entire command. In other words, in this example:
ENV abc=hello
ENV abc=bye def=$abc
ENV ghi=$abc
will result in `def` having a value of `hello`, not `bye`. However,
`ghi` will have a value of `bye` because it is not part of the same command
that set `abc` to `bye`.
## The `.dockerignore` file
If a file named `.dockerignore` exists in the source repository, then it