Comment 18 for bug 1325571

That was an overly FLAMBOYANT display of my grief
at having wronged you.

I was saying that you may ( hopefully ) one day attain
the title "Great One" or you may ( unknownst to me)
already hold it.

No sarcasm intended.
No _obvious_ metaphor.

syntax error - poorly constructed if-then-else statement

-- "Virklich, das tut mir leid!" --
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Oh, great, _now_ my memory disgorges this !

***** In recent years , Ubuntu _boots_ *****

***** using "Dash" rather than "Bash". *****

This suggests a different directory path name, and likely

not .bashrc as an initial file ( at system boot ).

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Many Android apps come with "BusyBox" incorporated into

the package just to make life easier for us "command line"

junkies, and I _don't_ doubt that Ubuntu has BusyBox ( and

therefore Bash ) onboard for possible invocation by users.

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( Dash, _if_ it is virtually the same as NetBSD ASH, comes

equipped only with the "dd" built-in-command and not the

more familiar "cp" built-in-command. This is a strong

selling point for Bash. <grin> )

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dash(1) - Linux man page
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. . . A login shell first reads commands from the files

          /etc/profile and

         .profile if they exist.

If the environment variable ENV

          is set on entry to an interactive shell, or

          is set in the .profile of a login shell,

the shell next reads commands

from the file named in ENV.

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Therefore, a user should place commands that are to be

executed only at login time in the .profile file, and commands

that are executed for every interactive shell inside the ENV file.

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To set the ENV variable to some file,

place the following line in your .profile of your home directory

ENV=$HOME/.shinit; export ENV

substituting for ''.shinit'' any filename you wish.

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If command line arguments besides the options have been

specified, then the shell treats the first argument as the

name of a file from which to read commands (a shell script),

and the remaining arguments are set as the

positional parameters of the shell ($1, $2, etc). Otherwise,

the shell reads commands from its standard input.