persistent CLASSPATH

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Aug 19 17:29:51 UTC 2005


dan wrote:
> dan wrote:
>         I'm on Fedora Core 4 OS...
>         e.g. export CLASSPATH=/home/username
>         results in a *temporary* CLASSPATH.
>         If I close the terminal window and
>         open a new one the command
>         echo $CLASSPATH results in no CLASSPATH(!)
>         
>         The command env shows that there is no CLASSPATH env variable. I
>         guess I need to *add*
>         the env variable CLASSPATH for e.g. the username.
>         How do I do that?
> 
> Add the command to ~/.bash_profile
> 
> You will need to log out and back in again for this to take effect.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> Paul,
> 
>>Add the command to ~/.bash_profile
> 
> I'm a newbie so I don't know how to that! My bash_profile
> looks like this:
> # Startup file for bash login shells.
> #
> default_dir=/usr/local/lib/
> 
> if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then
> 	PS1='\u@\h(\#)\$ '
> 	IGNOREEOF=3
> fi
> 
> LOGIN_SHELL=true
> 
> # If the user has her own init file, then use that one, else use the
> # canonical one.
> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
> 	. ~/.bashrc
> elif [ -f ${default_dir}Bashrc ]; then
> 	. ${default_dir}Bashrc;
> fi

Just use your favourite editor (e.g. gedit) to add this line to the end 
of the file:

export CLASSPATH=/home/username

Paul.




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