MacOS – environment variable not showing after set

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I am trying to set permanent environmental variable in my mac machine
I have tried following steps till now –

  1. vi ~/.bash_profile

  2. adding my variable 

    export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home
export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/share/android-sdk
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/usr/local/share/android-sdk

  3. restarted the bash

    source ~/.bash_profile

For current terminal its loaded the variable, but if I open another terminal
its not showing newly added variable if I check with printenv.

How can I make bash set the variables?

Best Answer

For newly created accounts Catalina uses zsh instead of bash, so you need to add the lines to the appropriate file (probably ~/.zshenv to make sure it's read in all cases).

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