How to manually set an Environment Variable for Fusion on macOS

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Feb 25, 2025

Products and versions covered

Issue:

How to set an Environment Variable for Fusion on macOS using the standard manual operating system commands.

Solution:

For more information, see: How to set Environment Variables.

For macOS Mojave (10.14) or earlier (bash is the default shell).

Set a permanent environment variable in bash:
1. Edit or create`~/.bash_profile` in a text editor (`~/.bashrc` for only interactive terminal sessions).
2. Add the following line:
  - ```
  export VARIABLE_NAME=<value>
```
- Note: Replace VARIABLE_NAME with the name of your variable and <value> with its value (if <value> has spaces in it, wrap it in ").
3. Save the file and restart your terminal or execute the command:
  - ```
  source ~/.bash_profile
```
Set a temporary environment variable in bash:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Enter the following line:
  - ```
  export VARIABLE_NAME=<value>
```
- Note: Replace VARIABLE_NAME with the name of your variable and <value> with its value (if <value> has spaces in it, wrap it in ").
3. Close the terminal to revert the change.

For macOS Catalina (10.15) or newer (zsh is the default shell).

Set a permanent environment variable in zsh:
1. Edit or create'~/.zshenv' in a text editor ('~/.zshrc' for only interactive terminal sessions).
2. Add the following line
  - ```
  export VARIABLE_NAME=<value>
```
- Note: Replace VARIABLE_NAME with the name of your variable and <value> with its value (if <value> has spaces in it, wrap it in ").
3. Save the file and restart your terminal or execute the command:
  - ```
  source ~/.zshenv
```
Set a temporary environment variable in zsh:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Enter the following line:
  - ```
  export VARIABLE_NAME=<value>
```
- Note: Replace VARIABLE_NAME with the name of your variable and <value> with its value (if <value> has spaces in it, wrap it in ").
3. Close the terminal to revert the change.

See Also:

How to manually set an Environment Variable for Fusion on Windows

Products:

Fusion;

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