Evil environment variables

[a thing]

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Whenever I set a custom environment variable in Bash, it doesn't exist when I exit the shell. I've tried just EXTRACT_DIRECTORY=/home/notroot/sources, set, export, typeset, declare (-x) and editing ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile.

[valan]

If you set a variable, it will only last until that shell is exited. If you want to keep it, the best thing (if you're using bash) is to export it in you ~/.bashrc:

export MONKEY="cheese and cucumbers"

.bashrc is sourced whenever a bash shell is started, so the export will happen and the variable will be defined.