? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

I am setting up a new potato system. I am interested in initializing 
environment
variables, in particular PATH. I see as the second line in both .bashrc 
and 
.bash_profile, the line:

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples

But on my newly installed system, there is no "examples/" directory at
/usr/share/doc/bash/
there is only some residue from a debian install. 
Where are the examples? Where is other docs about user space 
initialization?

Thanks.