Shell Scripts

GitMate requires certain environment variables to be set. The easiest method to do this is to source a script.

Shell scripts are a series of shell commands executed sequentially. Here we will walk through how to set up and execute a script to set up all the required variables.

First we will create our script (We recommend placing your script outside your cloned repo).

$ touch my_script.sh

Now open my_script.sh in your favorite text editor.

The first element in our script is as follows

#!/bin/bash

This tells our shell to use a bash interpreter when running our script.

After that, set the environment variables using the export command.

export $VARIABLE=Value

Finally, in order to run our script use

$ source my_script.sh