.bash_profile not working

By Ava Wright August 05, 2026

I'm trying to set AVARIABLE in my bash_profile:

echo export "AVARIABLE=example" >> ~/.bash_profile

then

source ~/.bash_profile

After that, AVARIABLE should be working, but...

bash: AVARIABLE: command not found

What in the hell could be causing this?

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1 Answer

To reference an environment variable, you'd need to preface it with $ : $AVARIABLE

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