Having an issue wit git bash on Window 10 a recent change has stopped me from being able to update up it - windows-10

I have the Git version 2.31.1.windows.1 installed and have tied re-installing it. I made a change to it to add a new alias. One I did I tried to source the file to reload it and received this error.
bash: /c/Users/DawsonSchaffer/.bashrc: Bad address
So I restored my previous version, which was working fine. However I still get the same error now. I know this isn't a lot of here is my .bashrc file
# History settings
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
shopt -s histappend
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=10000
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
# load color variables
if [ -f ~/.bash_colors ]; then
. ~/.bash_colors
fi
# prompt
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1="${GREEN}ganymede#${BLUE}dawson:${ICYAN}\W${RESET}${IYELLOW} \$(parse_git_branch) $ "
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# get current branch in git repo
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
# function parse_git_branch() {
# BRANCH=`git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/'`
# if [ ! "${BRANCH}" == "" ]
# then
# STAT=`parse_git_dirty`
# echo "[${BRANCH}${STAT}]"
# else
# echo ""
# fi
# }
# file colors
LS_ORIGINAL=LS_COLORS
LS_COLORS='di=93:*.py=92:*.qml=92sb'
export LS_COLORS
# Alias definitions.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# Alias functions.
if [ -f ~/.bash_functions ]; then
. ~/.bash_functions
fi
# virtual environment home
export WORKON_HOME='C:\Users\DawsonSchaffer\Documents\ProjectsDirectory\virtualenvirinments'
Any help would greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dawson

My apologies, after scanning the files several times I finally found that I had a funky character in my .bashrc once I removed it every is working perfectly.
Thanks
Dawson

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Shell often exits after sourcing .bashrc file. Caused by infinite loop in Nvm

Note
I edited the original post to get rid of red herrings and update for the newest .bashrc.
Post
I have a local Mac (using Zsh) and ssh into a EC2-based linux devbox (using Bash).
When I source ~/.bashrc on my linux computer, my shell often exits. I say "often" because it's inconsistent. I just tried running the same command twice, and the problem only appeared the second time. This problem also happens if I source inside a tmux session, so this isn't an ssh issue. When I add PS4=':${BASH_SOURCE[0]##*/}:$LINENO+'; set -x at the top of the .bashrc file, I just see a stream of ::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado messages. Based on this output, I think the last successfully-executed command is alias cd='cdnvm'.
::.bashrc:124+'[' -s /home/jalvarado/.nvm/bash_completion ']'
::.bashrc:124+. /home/jalvarado/.nvm/bash_completion
:::bash_completion:5+command -v nvm
:::bash_completion:86+[[ -n '' ]]
:::bash_completion:96+complete -o default -F __nvm nvm
::.bashrc:167+alias cd=cdnvm
::.bashrc:168+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
...
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
::.bashrc:126+cdnvm /home/jalvarado
Connection to devrestricted-jalvarado.ec2.pin220.com closed.
Despite this, I have no problem starting a new shell. When I ssh into my devbox or start a new tmux session, I don't see any output. In fact, I no longer see "hello" as part of my echo "hello" command in the .bashrc, which I was using to debug earlier until the echo mysteriously disappeared.
I'm at a loss for how to investigate this. Does anyone have suggestions?
Here are the full contents of my .bashrc file. Almost all of it was programmatically generated (not by me). The only lines I manually added are the pyenv lines at the bottom and the debugging line at the very top.
# For debugging
PS4=':${BASH_SOURCE[0]##*/}:$LINENO+'; set -x
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return;;
esac
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u#\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user#host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# colored GCC warnings and errors
#export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
fi
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion
cdnvm() {
cd "$#";
nvm_path=$(nvm_find_up .nvmrc | tr -d '\n')
# If there are no .nvmrc file, use the default nvm version
if [[ ! $nvm_path = *[^[:space:]]* ]]; then
declare default_version;
default_version=$(nvm version default);
# If there is no default version, set it to `node`
# This will use the latest version on your machine
if [[ $default_version == "N/A" ]]; then
nvm alias default node;
default_version=$(nvm version default);
fi
# If the current version is not the default version, set it to use the default version
if [[ $(nvm current) != "$default_version" ]]; then
nvm use default;
fi
elif [[ -s $nvm_path/.nvmrc && -r $nvm_path/.nvmrc ]]; then
declare nvm_version
nvm_version=$(<"$nvm_path"/.nvmrc)
declare locally_resolved_nvm_version
# `nvm ls` will check all locally-available versions
# If there are multiple matching versions, take the latest one
# Remove the `->` and `*` characters and spaces
# `locally_resolved_nvm_version` will be `N/A` if no local versions are found
locally_resolved_nvm_version=$(nvm ls --no-colors "$nvm_version" | tail -1 | tr -d '\->*' | tr -d '[:space:]')
# If it is not already installed, install it
# `nvm install` will implicitly use the newly-installed version
if [[ "$locally_resolved_nvm_version" == "N/A" ]]; then
nvm install "$nvm_version";
elif [[ $(nvm current) != "$locally_resolved_nvm_version" ]]; then
nvm use "$nvm_version";
fi
fi
}
alias cd='cdnvm'
cd $PWD
export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
echo "hello"
The problem shown by the xtrace log is the cd inside cdnvm just calling cdnvm again because of the alias cd=cdnvm.
To fix it, change:
cdnvm() {
cd "$#"
to
cdnvm() {
builtin cd "$#";
...forcing the original/built-in copy of cd to be used, bypassing the alias.
It turns out that my linux machine had outdated nvm code. There was an infinite loop issue that NVM fixed last year. I'd recommend taking the most up-to-date version of the code they have.
Their solution was similar to #Charles's: use command cd instead of just cd, which they aliased, creating an infinite loop.

Title of "gnome-terminal" is being overridden by .bashrc in Ubuntu

I need to open around 20 terminals on the same time and execute different command on each one ,and I'd like also to name each window with a different name.
I'm using something as follows:
gnome-terminal --title="some title goes here" -- bash -ic "ls; exec bash"
The new window is opened , shows the title some title goes here and after 1~2 seconds
it's being overridden and turns into the path that I'm running the command
gnome-terminal --title="some title goes here" -- bash -ic "ls; exec bash"
from.
Here is my .bashrc:
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return;;
esac
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u#\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user#host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# colored GCC warnings and errors
#export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
fi
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion
[ -f ~/.fzf.bash ] && source ~/.fzf.bash
# function
parse_git_branch() {
if [ -n "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
echo "($(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)) "
fi
}
# environment customization
# PS1="[\t \D{%F} \u#\h \W\a]$ "
PS1="$PS1-[\t \D{%F}]$ "
export PS1="$PS1\$(parse_git_branch)"
# HSTR configuration - add this to ~/.bashrc
alias hh=hstr # hh to be alias for hstr
export HSTR_CONFIG=hicolor # get more colors
shopt -s histappend # append new history items to .bash_history
export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # leading space hides commands from history
export HISTFILESIZE=10000 # increase history file size (default is 500)
export HISTSIZE=${HISTFILESIZE} # increase history size (default is 500)
# ensure synchronization between bash memory and history file
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -n; ${PROMPT_COMMAND}"
# if this is interactive shell, then bind hstr to Ctrl-r (for Vi mode check doc)
if [[ $- =~ .*i.* ]]; then bind '"\C-r": "\C-a hstr -- \C-j"'; fi
# if this is interactive shell, then bind 'kill last command' to Ctrl-x k
if [[ $- =~ .*i.* ]]; then bind '"\C-xk": "\C-a hstr -k \C-j"'; fi
function changeTitle(){
if [[ -z "$ORIG" ]]; then
ORIG="$PS1"
fi
TITLE="\[\e]2;$*\a\]"
PS1="${ORIG}${TITLE}"
}
### ALIASES ###
alias k='kubectl'
Any idea how to fix this ?
The prompt set in PS1 contains screen control codes which overwrite the window title.
If you don't want the prompt to change your window title, take out the snippet which does that.
Here's a slight edit to let you set no_title_change in the calling shell. This would replace the similar snippet in your current .bashrc; the real change it that we change the variable $TERM to a slightly more complex (and slightly hacky) parameter expansion.
...
# If this is an xterm set the title to user#host:dir
# unless $no_title_change is set
case ${no_title_change-$TERM} in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
...
If you unconditionally want to remove the title-changing logic, just replace this snippet with nothing.
The use case of opening a separate terminal window for each in a set of tasks is dubious; a better practice generally is to run your tasks as background processes, each with output to a file. Then you can automate monitoring and logging for the entire scenario, and avoid silly problems like terminating a process by mistake by accidentally closing the wrong terminal window; and managing the processes remotely from multiple locations becomes feasible.

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This is my .bashrc file and it gives me an error :
bash: /home/rishitratan/.bashrc: line 119: syntax error: unexpected end of file
How can do know what is the error, can some one please help me out.
I made some changes to the bashrc file to remove ros and link opencv. Opencv got linked properly but upon opening the terminal I am always getting this error.
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return;;
esac
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u#\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user#host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# colored GCC warnings and errors
#export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ ! shopt -oq posix]; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
alias web="mkdir css && mkdir js && mkdir images && touch index.html && touch css/styles.css && touch js/script.js"
export PATH=/home/rishitratan/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
It looks like you didn't close one of if statements:
if [ ! shopt -oq posix]; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
# here add fi <----
fi

linux cli tab autocomplete broken on ec2 instance

When i made 2 fresh ubuntu x64 instances, one had tab autocomplete working. The other just throws up spaces when tabbing. Also the second instance wont let me use up and down arrow keys to cycle through history.
Does anyone know how to fix this. Goog search did'nt provide much.
Only difference between the two instances is the size of each instance. #1 is a medium, #2 is a small. But both launched with the same image
ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20121001 (ami-0d153248)
Ok answering my own question.
For the above particular ubuntu ami while adding users i had to use
sudo adduser instead of useradd
By using adduser, it drops in a .bashrc file . I have not spent the time to go through bashrc to see what entries make the tabbing work. But it does. Here is the .bashrc file if anyone is interested.
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
# See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u#\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
# If this is an xterm set the title to user#host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u#\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi

SSH through Putty comes up with a "no such file or directory"

I'm trying to access out Linux server through Putty but for some reason after a somewhat successful login it just throws a "/bin/bash no such file or directory" then Putty closes.
Contents of bashrc:
# /etc/bashrc
# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile
# By default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ $UID -gt 99 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
case $TERM in
xterm*)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
else
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}#${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"'
fi
;;
screen)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
else
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}#${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\033\\"'
fi
;;
*)
[ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default
;;
esac
# Turn on checkwinsize
shopt -s checkwinsize
[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u#\h \W]\\$ "
fi
if ! shopt -q login_shell ; then # We're not a login shell
# Need to redefine pathmunge, it get's undefined at the end of /etc/profile
pathmunge () {
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
fi
}
# Only display echos from profile.d scripts if we are no login shell
# and interactive - otherwise just process them to set envvars
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -r "$i" ]; then
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
. $i
else
. $i >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
unset i
unset pathmunge
fi
# vim:ts=4:sw=4
What could be causing this?
Thanks!
Well bash is more than likely located at a different location on this linux box to /bin/bash
I've found this to be the case on different boxes and I've changed my .profile script in my home directory to not directly execute bash, could be a solution in your case. So when you log in you stay in the bourne shell, and then go into the bash shell only if you explicitly type bash.
Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config to make sure that you don't have a chroot directory set. If you do, you will need to either create a bin directory in the chroot directory and either copy or link the necessary binaries into that directory.
Or you could always comment that line out in the config.
Either way, restart sshd and test.

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