Example of bash script to export environment variables on linux

export.sh

# Make vim the default editor
export EDITOR="vim"

# Larger bash history (allow 32³ entries; default is 500)
export HISTSIZE=32768
export HISTFILESIZE=$HISTSIZE
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
# Make some commands not show up in history
export HISTIGNORE="ls:cd:cd -:pwd:exit:date:* --help"

# Prefer US English and use UTF-8
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

# Highlight section titles in manual pages
export LESS_TERMCAP_md="${yellow}";

# Don’t clear the screen after quitting a manual page
export MANPAGER="less -X"

# Set .marks as the folder for jumping symlinks
export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks

# Set architecture flags
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# Pip should only run if there is a virtualenv currently activated
export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true

# Make new shells get the history lines from all previous
# shells instead of the default "last window closed" history
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

# Export Homebrew Cask settings
export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--appdir=/Applications --caskroom=/usr/local/Caskroom"
export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=1bf56893896300b54f1f242426f6f61b6a152ee1

# Use Homebrew folder rather than Home for rbenv
export RBENV_ROOT=/usr/local/var/rbenv

export FULLNAME="Hugo Rodde"
export CURRENT_YEAR=`date "+%Y"`