How to restore .bashrc file?

The terminal shows this when it opens:

bash: /home/atlas/.bashrc: line 73: syntax error near unexpected token `['
bash: /home/atlas/.bashrc: line 73: `if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ] ; then '

I've tried to fix it using:

cp /ect/skel/.bashrc ~/

And I get this:

cp: cannot stat `/ect/skel/.bashrc': No such file or directory

I'm unsure of why this is doing this and how to fix it. I had previously been in the .bashrc file messing around and apparently I've messed something up. All I want to do is to restore the .bashrc file to default settings.

Solution 1:

I think you got the path wrong - it's etc not ect.

In Ubuntu, there is a default version of the .bashrc file in the /etc/skel/ directory, so if you have problems with it you can restore it.

To do so follow the next steps:

1. Backup your current .bashrc file:

   cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak
   

2. Copy the skeleton .bashrc file over yours:

   cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/
   

3. Afterwards, load the new one:

   source ~/.bashrc
   

Solution 2:

Copy the contents of https://gist.github.com/marioBonales/1637696/raw/337f7b60d4e3d9e887a0206dec6a737e94cdd26e/.bashrc

to ~/.bashrc. You can use a text editor such as gedit for this.