[ubuntu-uk] blooper: overwrote /usr/share/bin ?

[Rob Beard]

On 26/07/10 16:25, ByteSoup wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I issued a silly command just now
>
> sudo cp<filename>  /usr/share/bin
>
> Missing the trailing "/" and now instead of the directory
> /usr/share/bin, i have a file called "bin". Now is this as I suspect
> trashed the directory, or was /usr/share/bin normally a symlink to
> another directory anyway?
>
> If I need to re-install its not too great a job, i just thought seeing
> as i havent overwritten a file with another then it may not be so bad?
>
> -Mark
>

Just checked on my system, I don't have a /usr/share/bin (Ubuntu 10.04 
32-Bit), looks like you may have been lucky.

Rob