How can I establish "shared" variables for all Bash instances on a machine?

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How can I establish these shared variables forever on all Bash instances?

export PATH=/Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-5.5/bin:$PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-5.5/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

And why is this tagged with NVIDIA, CUDA, and theano? – talonmies Aug 19 '13 at 17:10 — talonmies, Aug 19 '13 at 17:10

jtravaglini · Answer 1 · 2013-08-19T17:42:28.607

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I think you'll want to put this logic in a file located in /etc/profile.d/, assuming you're using some Unix/Linux based distribution.

edited Aug 19 '13 at 17:42

answered Aug 19 '13 at 16:37

jtravaglini

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '13 at 17:20

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From the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH it seems you are using Mac. You can put these in ~/.bashrc. If your current $SHELL is bash then each time you open a Terminal it should execute those lines and they will be available to read/modify later. e.g. echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

answered Aug 19 '13 at 17:20

iamauser

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/etc/profile.d/ exists on mac too. it applies to all users as opposed to .bashrc which is user specific. – jtravaglini Aug 19 '13 at 17:41

How can I establish "shared" variables for all Bash instances on a machine?

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