Set Java home on a mac

To get location of JAVA_HOME run:

/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8

Pass in the version you want, for instance 1.7, 1.8, etc…

To set JAVA_HOME environment variable run:

export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)"

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