On Wednesday, December 11 2019, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Someone at work just made a slight mistake:
root@ECA:~# cd /var root@ECA:/var# mv core.* /* [clearly that trailing * was not meant to be there] [bunch of errors about target already existing] root@ECA:/var# ls -bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory root@ECA:/var#
So what do you do now?
Everything that could be moved was moved under /var, because it's the last directory (alphabetically) on /. You will have to invoke the dynamic loader by hand in this case, because it has been moved as well. On Debian GNU/Linux 64-bit, you can find it at /var/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2. You will also have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly, otherwise the binary to be executed will not be able to find its required libraries (mainly libc.so, in this case): # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu # /var/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /var/bin/ls You can now invoke 'mv' and move the contents back to /. Cheers, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/