How to set custom Environment variable on Mac?

Question

I have a requirement where I need to set a custom environment variable called CLUSTER_ENV = '@fooURL' The steps I have followed are:

Open terminal, open bash_profile and save CLUSTER_ENV='@foo'. When I do echo $CLUSTER_ENV , I get blank output.
I did the same thing in the bashrc file and in this case, the $CLUSTER_ENV shows the value only when I run it in the same terminal window.

Which is the best or recommended way to permanently set the environment variable on a Mac? Im running El Capitan.

I have gone through these links for reference:

bash_profile and bashrc will only work (by default) if you actually use bash. I assume you know and made sure you run bash? — Hans Petter Taugbøl Kragset
– Hans Petter Taugbøl Kragset, Commented Sep 20, 2017 at 7:20

Sergiu · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-20 13:11:43Z

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As you will normally do on any Linux distro: export CLUSTER_ENV=my.url.com which will have to be added to ~/.bash_profile

answered Sep 20, 2017 at 13:11

Sergiu

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