[SOLVED] AWS Environmental variable independent of shell

Issue

I am new in AWS I am using an Ubuntu server and I use export in the shell to set environmental variables.

export mykey=value

But when I close the shell and relogin I see that mykey does not available the environmental variable. As far as I search in the net, such way of setting will expire directly after shell is closed. How could I have a permanent environmental variable in AWS then? Thanks

Solution

You could edit the ~/.bashrc file by adding export mykey=value command to have it every time the shell reloads. Environmental variables are not saved when you exit all the instances of the shell. But everytime shell opens, it reads the bashrc file, if you are in a bash shell. For zsh, it would be ~/.zshrc for example.

Answered By - aboitier

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)