#!/bin/bash if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then echo -e "\033[31mThis script requires superuser rights.\033[0m" exit 0 fi if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "Please provide both the VAR_NAME and VAR_VALUE as arguments." exit 1 fi trap 'echo -e "\033[31mSomething went wrong\033[0m"; exit 1' ERR set -e export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ENV_VAR_NAME=$1 ENV_VAR_VALUE=$2 # Create a file if it does not exist if [ ! -f /etc/environment ]; then touch /etc/environment fi # Checking if a variable already exists if grep -q "^${ENV_VAR_NAME}=" /etc/environment; then # If the variable exists, update its value sed -i "s/^${ENV_VAR_NAME}=.*/${ENV_VAR_NAME}=${ENV_VAR_VALUE}/" /etc/environment else # If the variable does not exist, add it echo "${ENV_VAR_NAME}=${ENV_VAR_VALUE}" | tee -a /etc/environment fi export "${ENV_VAR_NAME}=${ENV_VAR_VALUE}" trap - ERR echo "Environment variable ${ENV_VAR_NAME} set to:" printenv "${ENV_VAR_NAME}"