[GTALUG] How much do you know about how linux executes binaries?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2019-12-11 12:27 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> Someone at work just made a slight mistake:
> 
> root at ECA:~# cd /var
> root at ECA:/var# mv core.* /*   [clearly that trailing * was not meant to be there]
[snip]
> So what do you do now?

All the files and directories in the root directory will have been moved in 
to the /var directory with the exception of the /lib and /opt directories 
which already existed in /var.

First step is move the bin directory back to its normal position using 
"bin/mv bin /". After that command you will have normal access to ls and mv 
once more and you can move other files and directories out of /var and back 
to / where they belong.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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