[Bug 922023] Re: Typo in bash manual ("from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc")

[Victor Zamanian]

I just grabbed the source for bash from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/.
(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2.tar.gz)

Opening the doc/bash.1 file with man, I noticed that this is the state
of that paragraph in that source package:

       "Bash attempts to determine when it is being run with its standard input
       connected to a network connection, as when executed by the remote shell
       daemon, usually rshd, or the secure shell daemon sshd.  If bash  deter‐
       mines  it  is being run in this fashion, it reads and executes commands
       from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists and is readable.  It  will  not  do
       this  if  invoked as sh.  The --norc option may be used to inhibit this
       behavior, and the --rcfile option may be used to force another file  to
       be  read,  but  rshd  does  not  generally  invoke the shell with those
       options or allow them to be specified."

So it seems to me that the file name was simply duplicated and was only
supposed to be mentioned once. So the solution is probably just to
remove the duplication.

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Title:
  Typo in bash manual ("from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc")

Status in The GNU Bash Shell:
  New
Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There must be a typo in the bash man page under INVOCATION:

  "Bash attempts to determine when it is being run with its standard
  input connected to a network connection, as when executed by the
  remote shell daemon,  usually  rshd,  or  the  secure  shell  daemon
  sshd.  If bash determines it is being run in this fashion, it reads
  and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files
  exist and are readable.  It will not do this if invoked as sh.  The
  --norc option may  be  used  to  inhibit this behavior, and the
  --rcfile option may be used to force another file to be read, but rshd
  does not generally invoke the shell with those options or allow them
  to be specified."

  To clarify:

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

  That can't be right. :-)

  It is the second-to-last paragraph under the INVOCATION section
  (starts on line 188).

  Not sure what it should say instead of that though.

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