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Greetings. This is my first post on this forum. I am trying to make my computer set some environment variables as follows (the exact variables aren't really important for this question):
If I paste these lines into the shell, they work for that instance of the shell. When I restart the shell, I must repaste them. If I put them in ~/.bash_profile, they have no effect. If I put them into a file and run that file, it has no effect whatsoever. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using Fedora Core 2 if that makes any difference.
They will only last for the duration of that script. You will need to source the script into your shell using iether of:
source /path/to/script
. /path/to/script
Thanks! That made the script commands work as I wanted (I also had to change my apostrophes to quotes). What is the best way to make the script run every time I open the console if I only want it to apply to my account?
If you put them in ~/.bash_profile they'll take effect the next time you log in. bash_profile is a good way to set variables to be available from any shell.
bashrc will only set variables for non-login shells, unless you have "source $HOME/.bashrc" in ~/.bash_profile
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