I am new to this mac world. I just installed jdk 8 on my mac and want to set $JAVA_HOME environment variable. I guess I should set it in .bash_profile file.
but it seems, my machine does not have this file and I don't know from where this $PATH variable coming from. Can't I have all env variables listed in one window or by one command just like windows?
how do I do it?
Thanks
Take a look at .bash_profile under your user directory - e.g. on my machine it's /Users/mikep/.bash_profile - if it doesn't exist, feel free to create it.
Here I assign environmental variables using export - e.g.
export JAVA_HOME=/Pathtomyjavainstall
export PATH=$PATH:/PathtomyJDKbindirectory
Then execute:
source ~/.bash_profile
To reload the environmental variables.
To check that they're set you can use echo from a Terminal window - e.g.
echo $JAVA_HOME
Results in: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home
which java, then both the params "Pathtomyjavainstall" and "PathtomyJDKbindirectory" should be the same path that I mentioned above right?
If you do not see a .bash_profile in your home directory ($HOME or ~) when you do an ls -a, you should have a .profile which isn't bash-specific; but does the same job (execute on startup)
To see all the environment variables, just type set into the terminal. Or set|less if the list is too long.
