How Do I Permanently Export in Linux?
Contents How Do I Permanently Export a Variable in Linux? to Make an Environment Persistent for a User’s Environment, We Export the Variable from the User’s...
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How do I permanently export a variable in Linux?
To make an environment persistent for a user’s environment, we export the variable from the user’s profile script.
- Open the current user’s profile into a text editor. vi ~/.bash_profile.
- Add the export command for every environment variable you want to persist. export JAVA_HOME=/opt/openjdk11.
- Save your changes.
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- Change to your home directory. cd $HOME.
- Open the . bashrc file.
- Add the following line to the file. Replace the JDK directory with the name of your java installation directory. export PATH=/usr/java/<JDK Directory>/bin:$PATH.
- Save the file and exit. Use the source command to force Linux to reload the .
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