macOS Catalina 10.15(beta) - Why is ~/.bash_profile not sourced by my shell?

Question

I want to set the environment variable I added below the line to ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile but it didn\'t work.

export JBOSS_H         


        

Answer 1

After you close a Terminal window, variables you set in that window are no longer available. If you want the value of a variable to persist across sessions and in all Terminal windows, you must set it in a shell startup script. For information about modifying your zsh shell startup script to keep variables and other settings across multiple sessions, see the “Invocation” section of the zsh man page.

You can use ~/.zlogin to add your variables.

Check out this reference.