Archive for September 12th, 2005

Global environment variables in OSX

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Coming from the linux word, I'm used to being able to set global environment variables in my ~/.bash_pofile, and having all apps (including GUI ones) inherit them.

Unfortunately, this wasn't the case under OSX, and it took me a little digging to discover how to accomplish the same: add them to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, e.g. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>CVS_RSH</key>
        <string>ssh</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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