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Suda
Suda

Reputation: 245

-bash: /bin/bash:: No such file or directory

I am on Windows 10v1803, and i have WSL with Ubuntu installed and working well.

Recently, i was in vim, and appending some aliases to my .bashrc. After I finished editing, I wanted to exit without saving, did the usual Control-C, and instead of :q! I did !:q (Yes, silly typos). I realized my mistake, did the correct :q! and exited.

I came back ~1hr later, to make those 2 changes (below) and noticed that on startup, I got the error

-bash: /bin/bash:: No such file or directory

along with the normal startup

suda@suda:~$

Everything proceeds normally, but i'm concerned as to what that error means. And, there is nothing that I could find on this apart from reinstall bash, which i have done 5 times, and makes no difference.

I proceeded to add the 2 aliases to my .bashrc, and everything works fine... Some help as to what is happening here please?

And if you're wondering, these were what i was adding onto my .bashrc:

alias cls="clear"
alias md="mkdir"

Also, I feel that this won't go under askubuntu. If i'm wrong, please do tell me.

Edit: Here's an image

Error Msg

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11845

Answers (1)

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198388

The error message is:

-bash: <file>: No such file or directory

Check that your script doesn't start with

#!/bin/bash:

and that you do not invoke /bin/bash: elsewhere, either.

(because, indeed, bash: should not exist in /bin)

Upvotes: 4

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