Re: [SLUG] Oh Sh.. I made a mistake

From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 07:45:35 EDT


Mike Manchester wrote:
> I moved a file with the following command. Thinking it would
> move the file to my current working dir.
> mv /path/*.zip
> Is there anyway to get these files back? They aren't in my
> current working dir as I would have expected (with dos anyway).

You should have gotten a syntax error and the files weren't moved.
Check the path again, they should still be there.

Now use:
   mv /path/*.zip .

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