On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:02, Jordan Thompson wrote:
> now you'd think this was easy.... and I'm sure it is once you know how....
> ;-)
> 
> I want to do a setenv (which does not exist in bash.)  I am using ant which
> expects JAVA_HOME to be set to wherever your jre is.  I tried:
> set JAVA_HOME=yadayada
> when I do this, and then do a set | grep HOME, I get:
> _=JAVA_HOME=yahdyada
> 
> I'd like to put this into my .bash_profile when I am done.
> 
> I had to change my shell to tcsh, do a setenv JAVA_HOME yadayada and use ant
> from tcsh - there must be an easier way!
> 
> thanks,
> Jordan
> 

You can edit the /etc/profile file - this affects all users, all shells.
Add in there the following:
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JAVA_HOME='/yadayadayada'

export JAVA_HOME
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Das ist alles!

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