On 08/06/2008, Steve King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got a bit of an issue with one of my system users. They have > accidentally moved multiple files from 1 directory, into a single file > in another.
Can we have more details on how this happened? mv won't let you move many files into one; if there are many operands to move, the last one must be a directory. Were all the files catted into a larger one? > Any advice or suggestions on how to fetch them out? I was thinking of > using something to find the EOF's within the larger file and then > splitting at that byte point, This won't work unless the big file is in some weird way; catting a bunch of files into a big one doesn't introduce EOFs at each cat point. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
