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So long as you would have had the same reaction on Windows (I’ll just move this Windows folder, ProgramData, ProgramFiles, inetpub, and all this other crap into a new folder...), then all is well :P
To be fair, Linux says, you are root, therefore you are expected to know what you’re doing. Whatever you say, boss!
Windows says, I don’t care who you are, you cannot do that. -
@blockchaintacos yes, but windows doesn't have a * Wich means everything. Or a / which means the root of the system.
In windows the most you could do is move the entire c: drive, and it wouldn't let you no matter if you are Bill Gates himself. -
@neofetch it was a pretty much empty machine except for our program for which I had a copy on the test environment.
And no data because the is the first installing.
But let's just say they don't think I am the professional they were expecting .. -
@rabbi actually it does have a star which means everything, only it’s *.*
And there are ways to wipe it if you can write C and understand the Windows API, but it’s not easy and likely to fail and crash haha
But points taken :P -
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Not sure how it'd work after disconnecting but I'm pretty sure all commands would've just been moved to the /old/bin folder or /old/usr/bin or something. Meaning you should probably have been able to do something like /old/bin/mv /old/* /
The reason your commands aren't working should be because your PATH variable has directories listed that are relative to your root rather than to /old.
I'm no expert either but it think that's how it should work.
Edit: Assuming that's where the old folder was, which it probably wasnt. :P Otherwise just the same but with the full path to the "old" folder. -
@ch0s3n I tried that but without the ls command working it was pretty hard to find anything so I gave up.
I wonder why cd still worked. Is it part of the kernel? -
@rabbi yea I got on my raspberry to check out how that looked hehe. Got a bit curious about how to solve a problem like this and whether these commands would have dependencies that would require the path variable to be set correctly or if it would work with just running the commands with the full path. The fact that cd works sounds positive.
Also I imagine you could probably do something like export PATH=/path/to/old/bin:/path/to/old/usr/bin to restore some of the core commands in that shell session... Or at least I think so. :P -
@ch0s3n don't be fooled about 'cd' working, as it is a command implemented in the Shell. There is no executable for it.
TLDR; I just screwed a production server and rendered it useless!!!
Long story:
I went to install a product that we built at the customer's site, and was given a Linux running server, to deploy our app.
I work in windows, and barely know the basic Linux commands.
So I look at the files in the home directory, and see that the are a lot of files, so I ask the customer if it is ok that I move all the files to a separate directory.
He agrees, and me thinking that I am smart, proceed to enter the following commands in the terminal:
mkdir old
mv /* old
Of course I got an error that I don't have permission so my next command was:
sudo mv /* old
And that was the end of that computer.
The amazing part of the story is that as soon as it happened, I understood so much about Linux.
The file structure, sudo, the power of the terminal, aliases and so much more...
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a missing period
learning from mistakes
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