Major Bonehead move:

[Devon Stewart]

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.
>> 
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