On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
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> At 06:09 PM 11/23/01 -0500, Philip wrote:
> >A classic tip is to do `echo *` to get a directory listing if ls is broken
> >or missing. Note that this assumes your shell does globing, which a
> >reduced "emergency" shell might not.
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> It worked, why, of course! why didn't I think about it?
>
That is a neat trick. Now when you mount your root disk and it moves root
to there does this show a normal number of files in the various /bin /sbin
/etc directories?
I am wondering if perhaps someone tried another neat trick of an rm -rf *
on your disk which stopped after rm was deleted or number of files rm
could handle was exceeded due to environment limitations.
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Received on Fri Nov 23 2001 - 23:32:49 GMT