[Bug 1968313] [NEW] Bash manual contains an error in the "Invocation" section

[Paddy Landau]

Public bug reported:

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)

** Affects: bash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal

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Title:
  Bash manual contains an error in the "Invocation" section

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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