How do I set environment variables in High Sierra Mac?

How do I set environment variables in High Sierra Mac?

3 Answers

1. From the terminal, type open .bash_profile .
2. Under OS X, the .bash_profile is executed each time you open a terminal session, ie Terminal application, \Shell, \New Window.
3. Didn’t work for me.
4. For the environment variables to take effect , you need to execute the file that you just modified.

How do you change environment variables on a Mac?

From http://hathaway.cc/post/69201163472/how-to-edit-your-path-environment-variables-on-mac:

1. Open Terminal.
2. Run touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile.
3. In TextEdit, add export PATH=”$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH”
4. Save the . bash_profile file and Quit (Command + Q) Text Edit.
5. Run source ~/.bash_profile.

How do you clear environment variables on a Mac?

Go to bash_profile file remove the line which sets the new variable and run . ~/. bash_profile on the command line. This will get completely rid of eliminated variable.

Which command displays all the environment variables?

printenv command
printenv command – Print all or part of environment. env command – Display all exported environment or run a program in a modified environment. set command – List the name and value of each shell variable.

Where to set environment variables in Mac OS X?

At the command line, environmental variables are defined for the current shell and become inherited by any running command or process.

Where do I set the environment variable in Bash?

Any environment variable you set in your .bash_profile will only affect your bash shells. Generally I only set variables in my .bash_profile file and don’t change the .plist file (or launchd file on Mavericks).

When to change the environment variable in Mavericks?

Only when an application actually needs a specific environment variable do I change the environment.plist (or launchd file on Mavericks). It sounds like what you want is to change the environment.plist file, rather than the .bash_profile. One last thing, if you look for those files, I think you will not find them.

How do I add a key to an environment variable?

To edit the file, you can Control-click to get a menu and select Add Row. You then can add a key value pair. For environment variables, the key is the environment variable name and the value is the actual value for that environment variable.