How to restore .bashrc

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Published on 2012-10-10T23:12:50Z Indexed on 2012/10/11 9:52 UTC
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Terminal shows this

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 restore the bashrc file to factory settings.

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