Ubuntu
bash package

bash man page has a typo, repeating .bashrc when one should be /etc/bash.bashrc

Bug #1728709 reported by Kevin O'Gorman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
bash (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The INVOCATION section of the man page has the text

"reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist and are readable"

which repeats "~/.bashrc". By experiment, I find it probable that the first of these .bashrc references should read "/etc/bash.bashrc".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: bash 4.3-14ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-97.120-generic 4.4.87
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Oct 30 13:28:43 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (447 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: bash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman-pacbell) wrote :
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)
tags: added: manpage
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in bash (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ubfan (ubfan1) wrote :

This documentation problem still present after two years in 18.04.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

I took the liberty of marking this as a duplicate of bug 1216969 which is already marked as triaged.

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