Re: Enviroment Variable

["Steven W. Orr" <steveo syslang net>]

On Saturday, Mar 8th 2003 at 08:37 -0500, quoth Nestor Waldyd:

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=>How can i set an enviromental variable such that it remains (in the bash) 
=>sesion after sesion...? Becouse i use 'export' to set enviroment variables 
=>and each time i begin a sesion i have to set the same variables again and 
=>again.....
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=>....

Add your export statements to your .bash_profile
Everytime you log in you run the contents of that file. Do *not* put any 
export statements in your .bashrc as that file is read for every subshell.

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