“I saw his recycling bin (/bin/). I empty it and now I can't open any programs”(unix.stackexchange.com)
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“I saw his recycling bin (/bin/). I empty it and now I can't open any programs”
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194710/laptop-unusable-after-deleting-bin
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So what commands would one have access to if /bin was deleted?
If you have a running shell, you will have at least the shell builtins, which include things that will let you list files (echo *) and write out data; you could, in theory, use echo or printf to generate a simple netcat binary, and then use that to restore /bin.
Probably easier to just boot from a USB stick and restore though.
[edit] And of course many systems have useful binaries in /usr/bin due to old hard drives being small.
Probably easier to just boot from a USB stick and restore though.
[edit] And of course many systems have useful binaries in /usr/bin due to old hard drives being small.
If this is not a troll attempt, some of the suggestions are as frightening as the problem.
Lol!! He was just trying to help!! :-)
Nothing that can't be recovered from though.