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I'm working on a bash script that appends to /etc/profile, but instead of appending, I accidentally wrote over it, losing all of its content.

How can I restore the file? Is there a system default profile that I can copy to restore my /etc/profile?

I did search here but being new to Ubuntu, I don't know if the posted /etc/profile content I see in other questions is the default content.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Alex
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There is a copy of the system default profile in /usr/share/base-files

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