在OS X中修改环境变量如PATH的正确方法是什么?

我看了谷歌一点,找到了三个不同的文件进行编辑:

/etc/paths ~ / . profile ~ / tcshrc

我甚至没有这些文件中的一些,我很确定.tcshrc是错误的,因为OS X现在使用bash。这些变量,特别是PATH,定义在哪里?

我运行的是OS X v10.5 (Leopard)。


当前回答

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。

其他回答

这里有两种类型的炮弹。

非登录:每次启动一个新的Bash副本时,.bashrc都会被重新加载 登录:.profile只有在登录或显式告诉Bash加载它并将其用作登录shell时才会被加载。

在这里,重要的是要理解在Bash中,.bashrc文件只能由交互式和非登录的shell读取,您会发现人们经常在.bash_profile中加载.bashrc以克服这一限制。

现在您已经有了基本的了解,让我们继续讨论我建议您如何设置它。

.profile:创建一个不存在的文件。把你的PATH设置放在那里。 .bashrc:如果不存在则创建。把你所有的别名和自定义方法都放进去。 .bash_profile:如果不存在则创建。把下面的东西放进去。

.bash_file:

#!/bin/bash
source ~/.profile # Get the PATH settings
source ~/.bashrc  # Get Aliases and Functions
#

另一个免费、开源的Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion)首选项窗格/环境。plist解决方案是EnvPane。

EnvPane的源代码可在GitHub。EnvPane看起来具有与rcenvirenvironment相当的功能,然而,它似乎可以立即更新其存储的变量,即不需要重新启动或登录,这是受欢迎的。

如开发商所述:

EnvPane is a preference pane for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) that lets you set environment variables for all programs in both graphical and terminal sessions. Not only does it restore support for ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist in Mountain Lion, it also publishes your changes to the environment immediately, without the need to log out and back in. <SNIP> EnvPane includes (and automatically installs) a launchd agent that runs 1) early after login and 2) whenever the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist changes. The agent reads ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and exports the environment variables from that file to the current user's launchd instance via the same API that is used by launchctl setenv and launchctl unsetenv.

免责声明:我与开发者或他/她的项目没有任何关系。

附注:我喜欢这个名字(听起来像“Ends Pain”)。

嗯,我不确定/etc/paths和~/. macosx /environment。plist文件。那些是新的。

但是使用Bash时,您应该知道每次新的shell调用都会执行.bashrc 并且.bash_profile只在启动时执行一次。

我不知道在Mac OS x上这种情况发生的频率有多高。我想随着windows系统启动一切,这种区别已经消失了。

就我个人而言,我通过创建一个.bashrc文件来消除困惑,其中包含我需要的所有内容,然后执行:

ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile

就像Matt Curtis给出的答案一样,我通过launchctl设置环境变量,但我将它包装在一个名为export的函数中,因此每当我像在.bash_profile中一样导出一个变量时,它也由launchctl设置。我是这样做的:

My .bash_profile consists solely of one line, (This is just personal preference.) source .bashrc My .bashrc has this: function export() { builtin export "$@" if [[ ${#@} -eq 1 && "${@//[^=]/}" ]] then launchctl setenv "${@%%=*}" "${@#*=}" elif [[ ! "${@//[^ ]/}" ]] then launchctl setenv "${@}" "${!@}" fi } export -f export The above will overload the Bash builtin "export" and will export everything normally (you'll notice I export "export" with it!), then properly set them for OS X app environments via launchctl, whether you use any of the following: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 # ~$ launchctl getenv LC_CTYPE # en_US.UTF-8 PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}" PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:${PATH}" export PATH # ~$ launchctl getenv PATH # /usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin export CXX_FLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.9" # ~$ launchctl getenv CXX_FLAGS # -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 This way I don't have to send every variable to launchctl every time, and I can just have my .bash_profile / .bashrc set up the way I want. Open a terminal window, check out your environment variables you're interested in with launchctl getenv myVar, change something in your .bash_profile/.bashrc, close the terminal window and re-open it, check the variable again with launchctl, and voilá, it's changed. Again, like the other solutions for the post-Mountain Lion world, for any new environment variables to be available for apps, you need to launch or re-launch them after the change.

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。