{"id":178,"date":"2018-03-28T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hconde.com\/wp\/?p=178"},"modified":"2019-02-24T04:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T04:50:16","slug":"ubuntu-linux-how-do-i-add-environment-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/ubuntu-linux-how-do-i-add-environment-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux: How do I add environment variables?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This information was actually taken from here.<\/a> Answer provided by Micha\u0142 \u0160rajer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I found it so useful that I wanted to save it for myself for future reference.<\/p>\n

To set variable only<\/strong> for current shell:<\/p>\n

VARNAME=\"my value\"<\/pre>\n
To set it for current shell and all processes<\/strong> started from current shell:<\/p>\n
export VARNAME=\"my value\"      # shorter, less portable version<\/pre>\n
To set it permanently<\/strong> for all future bash sessions add such line to your .bashrc<\/code> file in your $HOME<\/code> directory.<\/p>\n
To set it permanently, and system wide<\/strong> (all users, all processes) add set variable in \/etc\/environment:<\/p>\n
sudo -H gedit \/etc\/environment<\/pre>\n
This file only accepts variable assignments like:<\/p>\n
VARNAME=\"my value\"<\/pre>\n
Do not use the export<\/code> keyword here.<\/p>\n
You need to logout from current user and login again so environment variables changes take place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This information was actually taken from here. Answer provided by Micha\u0142 \u0160rajer. I found it so useful that I wanted to save it for myself for future reference. To set variable only for current shell: VARNAME=”my value” To set it for current shell and all processes started from current shell: export VARNAME=”my value” # shorter, less portable version To set it permanently for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[112,108,109,106,113,111,107,110],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-bashrc","tag-environment","tag-environment-variable","tag-linux","tag-set-environment-variable","tag-set-variable","tag-ubuntu","tag-variable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horazmakes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}