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Formatting Ubuntu 18.04
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You may not have to reinstall. First thing is to ascertain what you did to your bash and if it was system wide or just for your user ID.
Create a new user ID and see if it works normally. If so there is no damage done to 18.04 just for your old user ID.
Ubuntu keeps a “skeleton” of most configurations that get copied to when a new user ID is created. For .bashrc it is in /etc/skel/.bashrc:
$ llocate .bashrc
ACCESS OWNER GROUP SIZE MODIFIED NAME (updatdb last ran: 2018-10-06 10:30:06)
-rw-r--r-- root root 2188 Aug 31 2015 /etc/bash.bashrc
-rw-r--r-- root root 3771 Aug 31 2015 /etc/skel/.bashrc
-rw-r--r-- rick rick 7522 Sep 30 10:10 /home/rick/.bashrc
-rw-r--r-- rick rick 7492 Sep 30 10:09 /home/rick/.bashrc~
If you modified .bashrc and damaged it there may be a backup called .bashrc~ which you can copy over top.