Tuesday, 8 March 2011

OSX environment variables

Where are those pesky things kept - as usual Apple like to keep us guessing....Whilst the folks at Stackoverflow provide answers:
  • ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, (~/.cshrc, ~/.tcshrc) - depending on what shell you're running
  • ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist - More for GUI stuff
  • /etc/launchd.conf - used globally by launchd (can be set per process using launchctl setenv)
  • /etc/paths - just for setting the PATH
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2 comments:

  1. Sleepliving11 May 2011 at 03:16:00 BST

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  2. Piers11 May 2011 at 21:05:00 BST

    Sure - though that'll only persist for that Terminal session. The posting is about configuring persistent environment variables across sessions.

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