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I am not sure what to do with this, it seems like an error.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi ... d_commands

The content is:

9.2.7. Colorized commands
Colorized commands are handy for inspecting their output in the interactive environment. I include the following in my "~/.bashrc".

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if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
    eval "`dircolors -b`"

When I applied this to my .bashrc, an error was flagged - no such command.

I replaced it with and it now works.

It did not seem appropriate to report it as a bug and I did not find anywhere to address such in the 'manual' section.

Any suggestions?

there seems to be a lot of outdated stuff in the debian manual.
if you want to change it, great!
i guess you're going to have to do most of the work yourself; create accounts in appropriate places, file bug reports (against the manual that is, not against bash), idk.

Although the use of backticks is discouraged, bash will still accept them — are you sure that you typed it in correctly?

It looks like a back tick.

Thank you