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By default, your system does not have the .bash_profile file for your user. Therefore you will need to create it to set environment variables for your current user when starting new session.
There is a hidden file in your Mac’s user directory named.bashprofile. This file is loaded before Terminal loads your shell environment and contains all the startup configuration and preferences for your command line interface.
Open your “.bashprofile” in nano with the command below: nano /.bashprofile With “.bashprofile” open, we will want to add a new line that starts with.
In this tutorial, we are going to create a .bash_profile to set $JAVA_HOME environment variable.
First, we are going to check out that .bash_profile does not exist.
Go to user home and create the .bash_profile file.
Push i key to insert contents with VIM editor, and write the environment variable.
Push esc key and type :wq to save and close the file. Then, reload the .bash_profile file.
The .bash_profile has been executed, and $JAVA_HOME has been set.
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