setenv equivalent on mac?

Question

I want to set an environment variable using setenv:

setenv NODE_ENV localhost  

But setenv gives me an error saying the command is not found. Does anyone know how to perform the MAC OSX equivalent of setenv? Thanks!

Answer 1

you want export

NODE_ENV=localhost
export NODE_ENV

or on 1 line export NODE_ENV=localhost

and this has nothing to do with OSX per se, more to do with bash vs (t)csh as your shell