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。

这很简单。编辑文件.profile (vi, nano, Sublime Text或其他文本编辑器)文件。你可以在~/目录(用户目录)中找到它，并像这样设置:

export MY_VAR=[your value here]

Java home的示例:

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/current

保存它并返回到终端。

你可以用:

source .profile

或者关闭并打开终端窗口。

有时候，前面所有的答案都不适用。如果你想在Eclipse或IntelliJ IDEA中访问一个系统变量(如M2_HOME)，在这种情况下，唯一适合我的是:

首先(步骤1)编辑/etc/launchd.conf以包含如下一行:“setenv VAR value”，然后(步骤2)重新启动。

简单地修改.bash_profile将不起作用，因为在OS X中应用程序不会像在其他Unix中那样启动;它们不继承父函数的壳变量。其他的修改都不管用了，原因我也不知道。也许有人可以解释一下。

这里有一个非常简单的方法来做你想做的事情。在我的例子中，它是让Gradle工作(Android Studio)。

打开终端。 执行如下命令: Sudo nano /etc/paths或Sudo vim /etc/paths 在提示时输入密码。 转到文件底部，输入要添加的路径。 点击Control + X退出。 输入“Y”保存修改后的缓冲区。 打开一个新的终端窗口，然后输入: 回声路径美元

您应该看到新路径被追加到path的末尾。

我从这篇文章中得到了这些细节:

添加到Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion及以上版本的PATH中

我认为OP正在寻找一个简单的，类似windows的解决方案。

给你:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/environmentvariablepreferencepane.html

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。