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-bash: /root/.bashrc: line 100: syntax error near unexpected token `('
-bash: /root/.bashrc: line 100: `export PATH=/bin/lscript:/bin/lscript:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2019.521.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/GtkSharp/2.12/bin:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/mnt/c/Program Files/PuTTY/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/usr/bin:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/snap/bin'
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You have unquoted spaces in your value to be assigned. bash uses spaces to tell where one parameter ends and the next starts, and treats parenthesis ("()") as special. Thus,

export PATH=/bin/lscript:/bin/lscript:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2019.521.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Window`sPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/GtkSharp/2.12/bin:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/mnt/c/Program Files/PuTTY/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/usr/bin:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/snap/bin

looks like 32 parameters to bash's assignment.

There are two solutions:

  1. Escape each space or parenthesis with \.
  2. Quote (" or ') each space-containing parameter.

Here's what using the first method gives: 

export PATH=/bin/lscript:/bin/lscript:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2019.521.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Common\ Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Intel/TXE\ Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Intel/TXE\ Components/iCLS/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Intel/TXE\ Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Intel/TXE\ Components/DAL/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Intel/TXE\ Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Intel/TXE\ Components/IPT/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Intel/WiFi/bin/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Common\ Files/Intel/WirelessCommon/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/GtkSharp/2.12/bin:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/PuTTY/:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/cmd:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/usr/bin:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/snap/bin

And, for the second method,

export PATH=/bin/lscript:/bin/lscript:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:"/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2019.521.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc":"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath":/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/iCLS/":/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:"/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/":"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/DAL/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/":"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/TXE Components/IPT/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon/":"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/GtkSharp/2.12/bin":/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/PuTTY/":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/cmd":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin":"/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/usr/bin":/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/snap/bin
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