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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hmm I think you're right; in most other parts of that text it says
   'bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist.'

but that section does have ~/.bashrc twice.

It doesn't seem to be upstream bash, but seems to be in the debian/ubuntu man-bashrc.diff patch.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

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.

[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

> "I unfortunately don't know what the first ~/.bashrc should be replaced with."

The author has confirmed that it should just be removed, not replaced.