permanently set environment variable linux code example

Example 1: set permanant environemt variable

$EDITOR ~/.profile
#add lines at the bottom of the file:  
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
     export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64

Example 2: how to set environment variables in linux

source ~/.bash_profile