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From: Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Correct way to set environment
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:29:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJtBfr8JERUyiRuPYNDEhkiQBWRSJNxghy0r1o-BN7Q9QOgWtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I'm a bit puzzled about the way to set global environment variables.

I've ushed .zshenv for that purpose since it is sourced on every shell
invocation.

florian@horus ~ % cat .zshenv
PATH=$HOME/flof/src:$HOME/software/bin:$PATH
PATH=/home/florian/software/src/boar:$PATH

PYTHONPATH=$HOME/flof/src:$PYTHONPATH


No other relevant z-files are present. This works as far as it sets
the PYTHONPATH variable but if I launch python it is not taken into
account. When I use export PYTHONPATH, the pythonpath gets longer and
longer if I invoke a zsh session within a zsh session.

What is the best way to set some environment variables, no matter how
(login, interactive, ...) the shell is invoced?

Thanks,

Florian


             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-15 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-15 13:29 Florian Lindner [this message]
2012-12-15 13:44 ` Stefan Marx
2012-12-15 18:33 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-12-15 18:42 ` Philippe Troin
2012-12-15 19:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-12-15 19:34   ` Bart Schaefer

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