Question

Any variable that I declare in my zshrc is available in the shell as an environment variable. I don’t want this to happen.

I tried putting the variables in a function and setting them as local, but then the function is available outside of the zshrc.

How can I make it so what happens in my zshrc stays in my zshrc?

Answer 1

They are available, but they are not exported so scripts launching from command-line don’t get these variables. If your .zshrc looks like

function zshrc()
{
    local VAR=1
    # Do stuff
}
zshrc

and you then never want to launch zshrc function again you can just do

unfunction zshrc

afterwards.