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Ubuntu

Bash export errors when ssh-ing in

Thewolfhearted

11/16/23, 4:51 PM

Context: I am running an Ubuntu 22.04.1 virtual machine on my firewall using trueNAS and I solely interact with it using ssh

Whenever I start a new terminal session I get these two messages:

-bash: export: `PATH#': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `15': not a valid identifier

This issue has been happening for awhile and I have not noticed it causing any other issues. I haven't tried anything since I don't know what the problem is.

Edits:

Output for

grep -P 'export .*(15|PATH#)' ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/bash.login ~/.bash_aliases /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/* /etc/environment 2> /dev/null

/etc/profile:export PATH# OpenJDK 15

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mchid

11/16/23, 5:18 PM

What does `grep export ~/.bashrc` return? If this does not return the offending lines that start with `export 15` and/or `export PATH#` check `grep export ~/.profile` and `grep export /etc/profile`, `grep export /etc/environment` and `grep export /etc/bash.bashrc`.

terdon

11/16/23, 5:27 PM

@mchid no need for separate commands. Thewolfhearted please [edit] your question and show us the output of running `grep -P 'export .*(15|PATH#)' ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/bash.login ~/.bash_aliases /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/* /etc/environment 2> /dev/null` on your Ubuntu machine.

mchid

11/16/23, 5:45 PM

@terdon Yeah, I figured that most people sanitize their username and didn't want to have to go through with explaining all of that. Although, I probably should've put `/etc/environment` as the second or third on the list so the first three would be the most likely ones.

terdon

11/16/23, 5:48 PM

Oh, it was more about not making the OP run one grep per file when they can just run a single grep on all files. I happen to have a little function for this, so I took the list of files from there, I assumed we suggested the same ones.

Thewolfhearted

11/17/23, 2:32 AM

@terdon Fixed it! Hope that helps.

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Ubuntu

pLumo

11/17/23, 9:23 AM

There is a space missing in front of #.

Add the space manually with an editor or run,

sudo sed -i 's/PATH#/PATH #/' /etc/profile

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Thewolfhearted

11/17/23, 4:47 PM

Doing the command provides a strange list of things that I provided above, any idea why this is happening?

pLumo

11/17/23, 5:56 PM

sorry, I forgot the `-i` flag

Thewolfhearted

11/17/23, 6:41 PM

With the -i flag it provides no errors but still does not fix the issue.

pLumo

11/17/23, 10:14 PM

My fault ... the command is correcft, but your issue is in `/etc/profile`, not in `~/.profile`. I edited once again, that should do it.

Thewolfhearted

11/18/23, 12:42 AM

im gonna remove the stuff regarding this since they are not needed for future use

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