Linux - Reading custom environmental variables

[colton]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to read an environmental variable in Java with

System.getenv("FOO");

I added

export FOO=/some/path

to ~/.bashrc and then used source ~/.bashrc.

With

echo $FOO

the env variable shows up in the terminal, but if I want to retrieve this variable with

System.getenv("FOO");

only null is returned and I have no clue how to fix this.

Using the method on variables like "USER" etc. works just fine.

If anybody has some experience how to deal with this problem, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

Alex