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Setting Environment variable in Linux

The following setting is for FC8 Linux. The file name or path may change for different flavor of Linux
For system wide effect , edit /etc/bashrc file and for particular user edit file home/<username>/.bash_profile and add your environment variable. For example, adding JAVA_HOME variable
#export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin
Then save the file and run it using source command.
#source /etc/bashrc or source /home//.bash_profile
You can test it by
echo $<your_variable_name>