How to access --env-var variable in pre-request script?

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My question:
How to access environment variable passed from command line in pre-request script?
command I am using:

newman run ‘collection.json’ --env-var “Key=Value”

In pre-request script:
pm.environment.get(“Key”)

Value for above expression is undefined .

Details :
I wanted to pass secrets from pipeline rather than hardcoding in the newman script. Its best practise to keep secrets out of code repository. So I am using environment variable.
Postman version to create collection: v10.8.0
newman npm version: 5.3.2

How I found the problem:
When specified env var in command line and tried to extract it in pre-request script.

I’ve already tried:
I have tried global variables in command line as well, not working it either.

Any help much appreciated.

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It looks like you are running the collection without an environment.

Don’t you need to include the environment in the newman command line before you can include the environment variable.

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–env-var CLI option provides a way to specify env var dynamically. Please correct if that’s not true.

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Yes, but you have to have an environment set for it to be added to. Otherwise where is it going to store the variable?

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Thank you @michaelderekjones its working after specifying env file path. I misunderstood the --env-var usage I guess.
Below command worked and pre-request can access cli env param.
newman run ‘collection.json’ -e ‘environmentfile.json’ --env-var “Key=Value”

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