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What is the difference between `VAR=…` and `export VAR=…`?
What is the difference in doing
$ MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m"
to doing
$ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m"
and is there any side-effect of doing either in an SSH ...
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Add bash script folder to path?
I have some bash scripts in an application folder that I'd like to use as if they were on my path. If they were straight-up applications, I'd just add the directory to ~/.bashrc, but these are ...
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When I type in terminal: export JDK_HOME=“/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/”, where does it get stored?
I have tried multiple locations, but with no luck of finding where was it added:
.bashrc
.bash_profile
/etc/profile
/etc/environment
.profile
When I do echo $JDK_HOME, I get what I expect ...
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Is ~/.profile sourced by bash?
I'm trying to create a global counter variable to see how many times ~/.profile gets executed. Thus:
In ~/.bashrc:
# ...
if [ "$PROFILE_EXEC_TIMES" = "" ]; then
export PROFILE_EXEC_TIMES=0
fi
let ...
