how am i define an environment variable?

yenonn · 12-18-2003, 11:25 PM

hi,

i know slack9.1 is loaded with j2sdk1.4.2_01. and when i echo $JAVA_HOME, it will show me the path..where is the file defining this variable, if i want to edit it??
now, i want to define another variable.. i want to define ANT_HOME??? how am i going to do it??? thanks....

miaviator278 · 12-19-2003, 12:30 AM

define it with
ANT_HOME="definition"
the file that automaticaly loads them, i'm not certain, you can put it in /etc/profile, or ~/.bashrc depending on your shell
man profile ?
bash how-to

if this doesn't help keep posting

h3pc4t · 12-19-2003, 07:44 AM

ACtually, that only assigns a variable. If you want to export it to your environment (and thus have child processes see it), you'll need to do:

ANT_HOME=blah
export ANT_HOME