虽然这里的答案并不是“错误的”，但我还要补充一点:永远不要在OS X中改变影响“所有进程”的环境变量，甚至在shell之外，也不要影响给定用户交互运行的所有进程。

In my experience, global changes to environment variables like PATH for all processes are even more likely to break things on OS X than on Windows. Reason being, lots of OS X applications and other software (including, perhaps especially, components of the OS itself) rely on UNIX command-line tools under the hood, and assume the behavior of the versions of these tools provided with the system, and don't necessarily use absolute paths when doing so (similar comments apply to dynamically-loaded libraries and DYLD_* environment variables). Consider, for instance, that the highest-rated answers to various Stack Overflow questions about replacing OS X-supplied versions of interpreters like Python and Ruby generally say "don't do this."

OS X is really no different than other UNIX-like operating systems (e.g., Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris) in this respect; the most likely reason Apple doesn't provide an easy way to do this is because it breaks things. To the extent Windows isn't as prone to these problems, it's due to two things: (1) Windows software doesn't tend to rely on command-line tools to the extent that UNIX software does, and (2) Microsoft has had such an extensive history of both "DLL hell" and security problems caused by changes that affect all processes that they've changed the behavior of dynamic loading in newer Windows versions to limit the impact of "global" configuration options like PATH.

不管“蹩脚”与否，如果您将这些更改限制在较小的范围内，您将拥有一个更加稳定的系统。

对于Bash，尝试将环境变量添加到文件/etc/profile中，以使它们对所有用户可用。不需要重新启动，只需启动一个新的终端会话。

登录shell

/etc/profile

shell首先执行/etc/profile.文件中的命令具有根权限的用户可以设置这个文件，为运行Bash的用户建立系统范围内的默认特征。

.bash_profile
.bash_login
.profile

接下来shell查找~/。bash_profile、~ /。Bash_login和~/。配置文件(~/是您的主目录的简写)，按此顺序执行它找到的第一个文件中的命令。您可以在其中一个文件中放置命令来覆盖/etc/profile中设置的默认值在虚拟终端上运行的shell不会执行这些文件中的命令。

.bash_logout

注销时，bash执行~/. conf中的命令。bash_logout文件。这个文件通常保存在会话结束后清理的命令，比如删除临时文件的命令。

交互式非登录shell

/etc/bashrc

虽然不是由bash直接调用，但许多~/。Bashrc文件调用/etc/bashrc.这种设置允许使用根权限的用户为非登录bash shell建立系统范围内的默认特征。

.bashrc

交互式非登录shell在~/. shell中执行命令。bashrc文件。(通常，登录shell的启动文件(如.bash_profile)将运行此文件，因此登录和非登录shell都将运行.bashrc中的命令。

因为.bashrc中的命令可能会被执行多次，并且子shell继承导出的变量，所以将添加到现有变量的命令放在.bash_profile文件中是一个好主意。

对于单个用户修改，使用~/。你列出的人的简介。下面的链接解释了Bash何时读取不同的文件。

http://telin.ugent.be/~slippens/drupal/bashrc_and_others

如果你想为gui应用程序设置环境变量，你需要~/. macosx /environment。plist文件

任何Bash启动文件—~/。bashrc,(~ /。bash_profile、~ / . profile。还有一些奇怪的文件，名为~/. macosx /environment。用于GUI应用程序中的环境变量。

直到和包括OS X v10.7 (Lion)，你可以设置它们:

~/.MacOSX/environment.plist

See:

https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/qa/qa1067/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Articles/EnvironmentVars.html

对于终端中的PATH，您应该能够在.bash_profile或.profile中设置(尽管您可能必须创建它)

对于OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion)及以上版本，您需要使用launchd和launchctl。