[Bug 1216969] Re: man page names the same file twice -- are there really 2?

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Can confirm this issue is still present in bash 5.1-6ubuntu1 on Ubuntu
Jammy (
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man1/bash.1.html#invocation
). It has been discovered and reported by various people over the years
(see the attached bug watch for a corresponding Debian report), so I'm
trying to gather the duplicates in one place her.

>It doesn't seem to be upstream bash,

No, this is also confirmed by duplicate bug 1968313

I believe it should be a simple fix, but I unfortunately don't know what
the first ~/.bashrc should be replaced with.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #601105
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601105

** Also affects: bash (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601105
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Tags added: bionic focal jammy manpage string-fix

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Title:
  man page names the same file twice -- are there really 2?

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in bash package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  In the bash(1) man page, INVOCATION section, second-to-last paragraph (begins with "Bash attempts to determine"), it says, in part:
     "it reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc,"
  naming the same file twice.  I suspect there's a file in /etc that gets read, but in any event the duplication should be either removed or corrected.q

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: bash 4.2-2ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-49.75-generic-pae 3.2.46
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-49-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Aug 26 07:59:26 2013
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: bash
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.bash.bashrc: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.bash.bashrc: 2012-10-05T23:02:00.509472

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