How do I make changes to my shell environment permanent?
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In some circumstances you may wish to make environment variables permanent between sessions, users, globally, or reboots.
Global Settings
The /etc/profile
file contains system wide environment variables and settings. All customizations that you put in this file will apply for every user on the system, including processes running as users.
For example if you ...
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