Hi Steve. You could try getting a copy of Midnight Commander, which has an undelete function. I don't know how well it works though. If you have more than one machine running Linux, you can try copying the contents of bin from another machine. That might work,if your libraries aren't toast. Gene >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