Terminal always shows these extra lines after being opened

maqtanim

9/2/24, 8:28 AM

I am using Kubuntu 22.04.3. Whenever I open the terminal (or konsole), the following five lines are always displayed.

bash: enable: bash: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: completion: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: in: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: interactive: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: shells: not a shell builtin

I am not sure what these lines mean. Am I doing something wrong?

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Henning Kockerbeck

9/2/24, 8:49 AM

Please look for those terms in your startup files like `~/.bashrc`, `~/.bash_profile`, `~/.profile` and the like. Then edit your question and add any occurrences you've found. If I had to guess, I'd reckon that you copy-and-paste'd something into a startup file that contains a comment, and didn't copy the starting `#`. Something like `for bash completion in interactive shells` instead of `# for bash completion in interactive shells`. But without looking into your files, this is just guesswork.

steeldriver

9/2/24, 12:28 PM

FWIW `# enable bash completion in interactive shells` is a comment in the default `/etc/bash.bashrc` file - so I'd check there first

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Raffa

9/2/24, 10:48 AM

enable is a Bash shell builtin command that takes/expects other shell builtin commands as arguments to list, enable or disable them ... You appear to have an uncommented statement/line like enable bash completion in interactive shells in one of the Bash Startup Files and that shouldn't be there ... Those startup files are sourced automatically every time an interactive shell is started (like when opening a new terminal ... mainly the files ~/.bashrc and, on Ubuntu, /etc/bash.bashrc for interactive non-login shells ... As well as any other files that are sourced in those files with . file or source file) and all lines in them are parsed and commands in them are executed in the current working shell unless a line is commented out by having # at its beginning ... Therefore, this might happen:

$ enable bash completion in interactive shells
bash: enable: bash: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: completion: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: in: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: interactive: not a shell builtin
bash: enable: shells: not a shell builtin

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