Re: [LUG] /usr/ directories deleted!?

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Gibbs wrote:

> On 13/06/11 11:07, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Gibbs wrote:
> >
> > > On 13/06/11 10:48, Dan Dart wrote:
> > > > Maybe you typed rm -rf  /usr /bin/sonething by accident. See the space 
> > > > after usr.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps it was a semicolon outre a cracker.
> > > I don't remember removing any directories whatsoever. It would have had to 
> > > be pretty specific to remove sbin, local and share all in on command.
> > >
> > > Very confused :)
> >
> > Login as root and type
> >
> >   history
> >
> > might give a clue?
> >
> > Gordon
>
> Ah, I always forget about history. The only thing I can see is
>
>   sudo mv * /usr/*
>
> IIRC that was me being lazy moving some flash debugger plugin. The fact that 
> I obviously was doing something to /usr/ probably means that it was me after 
> all. I still don't know how that would remove directories though...

Easy.

mv takes a list of files/dirs and moves them to the list item in the list.

So..

  mv * /usr/*

expands to

  mv file1 file3 file3 (in current dir, etc.) /usr/bin /usr/games
        /usr/include /usr/local ... ending up in my case with /usr/src

So you moved everything into /usr/src (or whatever the last file/dir in 
your /usr was)

They're probably still there.

Gordon

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