I' e done stuff like this in the past. If the machine is still running you should be fine. My example will be with Debian, since that's what I run at home. As root, type: aptitude reinstall ?installed which should go through all packages and reinstall them. You'll probably find other solutions are out there for other distros. Good luck! -Devon On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:44, "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote: > I'd say you're kind of stuck unless you have rm aliased to drop stuff in ~/.trash, which is common. You could also do some forensics stuff, but if you're messing with the hd you've probably killed that option. > On 8/29/2012 11:53 AM, Stephen Dawes wrote: >> After so many years of using Linux, I have finally done it, a Major Bonehead >> move. I wrote a script, and when I tested it, it went wild on me. When it >> ran it deleted the contents of /bin and I don't know what else. Any ideas, >> short of a re-install of the OS, on how to recover from this Major Bonehead >> move? >> >> Major Bonehead >> Steve. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine: > http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
