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I am using Ubuntu with Ubuntu 64-bit -VMware Workstation 15 Player. A few days ago, while I was running Ubuntu, I had to log out of my windows user due to an error, which led to a crash (everything froze) in the virtual machine. I 'fixed' that by clicking on the pause sign (top left corner of the added pictures) and restarted the machine, now it is running again. But ever since I cannot use commands such as 'll' anymore.

I noticed the change in the terminal, which usually had my hostname in the headline and the name itself highlighted in every line, so I created a new sudo user (those commands work) for test purposes and when l switch the user to it, it looks the way it did before just, so I assume I accidentally changed something concerning my old user I cannot undo myself.

Those are the differences in appearance: 1 2

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  • Welcome to AskUbuntu! i think your Ubuntu not have crash! try see your .bashrc with run cat ~/.bashrc |grep ll and removed # on the #alias ll=<commands> saved and run source ~/.bashrc. you can try again $ ll and see what happened!!!
    – abu-ahmed al-khatiri
    Dec 24, 2018 at 11:49
  • Maybe .bashrc is messed up. No aliases, wrong PS1.
    – PerlDuck
    Dec 24, 2018 at 11:50
  • Perhaps! please edit your question to including the output of cat ~/.bashrc |grep PS1??
    – abu-ahmed al-khatiri
    Dec 24, 2018 at 11:55
  • Oh I added the answer already, thanks for the replies.
    – abdacexa
    Dec 25, 2018 at 0:42

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thanks alot for the fast replies. There wasn't anything wrong at all as abu-ahmed al-khatiri initially suggested (is there a way to tag people?). I have made a stupid mistake the last time I was logged in, which was before the 'crash', which resulted in the problem I had once I relogged. So, your suggestions about the .bashrc led me to the solution. It wasn't the .bashrc or anything that was corrupted, it was me trying to 'tidy up' the folder structure where I put all the files (.bashrc included) into a folder that was supposed to contain everything I do not use actively but might need at a later stage. I was looking for .bashrc via 'll' and while I could not enter the command, pressing tab for autocompletion showed me everything was still there so I found my way to .bashr and the idea that putting everything into a folder might have been a bad idea. I moved it back into the home directory and it works again. Thanks everyone for the help.

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