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Bash manual contains an error in the "Invocation" section

Bug #1968313 reported by Paddy Landau on 2022-04-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1216969: man page names the same file twice -- are there really 2?. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bash (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This is a minor error in the Bash manual, which I have confirmed with one of the authors (Chet Ramey). The error appears to have been created in Debian, and therefore Ubuntu has inherited it.

DETAIL

In the Bash manual ("man bash"), in the "Invocation" section, the penultimate paragraph has this phrase:

"… it reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc"

The file ~/.bashrc should be stated just once, because it's confusing having it mentioned twice.

This needs correcting at the Debian level, so that all Debian-based distributions will inherit the fix.

• Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10
• apt-cache policy bash: 5.0-6ubuntu1.1
• bash --version: GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: bash 5.0-6ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-39.44~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 8 11:18:38 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-09-05 (579 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
SourcePackage: bash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Paddy Landau (paddy-landau) wrote on 2022-04-08:

Dependencies.txt Edit (253 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2022-04-09:

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

While looking into this issue, I found that it has been discovered and reported by various people over the years. I'm trying to gather the reports into one single place, so I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 1216969.