Ubuntu – Moved a directory to an unknown …/ place (three dots)

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I came across this weird situation when I accidentally moved one of my directory to an unknown place I am unable to find.

What I did was executed this command –

/opt/lampp/htdocs/cake$ mv cakephp/ .../

It did executed without any error, and now I am not able to locate my directory.

I googled this issue but I am not getting any help.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best Answer

You renamed the directory cakephp in /opt/lampp/htdocs/cake to .... Your command was perfectly valid, therefore it did not produce an error.

You should be able to find the directory at /opt/lampp/htdocs/cake/.... Note that files/folder starting with a dot are hidden (hence you need to use, e.g., ls -a /opt/lampp/htdocs/cake to see it).

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If you have only two files, eg:

IDENTIFIER_1
IDENTIFIER_2

then you have overwritten IDENTIFIER_2 with the content of IDENTIFIER_1.

Example:

$ cat IDENTIFIER_1
IDENTIFIER_1

$ cat IDENTIFIER_2
IDENTIFIER_2

$ ls -og IDENTIFIER_*
-rw-rw-r-- 1  0 Mai 19 18:28 IDENTIFIER_1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 13 Mai 19 18:27 IDENTIFIER_2

$ mv IDENTIFIER_*

$ ls -og IDENTIFIER_*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 13 Mai 19 18:30 IDENTIFIER_2

$ cat IDENTIFIER_2 
IDENTIFIER_1

If you had had more than two files, then would be an error:

$ ls -og IDENTIFIER_*
-rw-rw-r-- 1  0 Mai 19 18:28 IDENTIFIER_1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 13 Mai 19 18:27 IDENTIFIER_2
-rw-rw-r-- 1  0 Mai 19 18:28 IDENTIFIER_3

$ mv IDENTIFIER_*
mv: target ‘IDENTIFIER_3’ is not a directory

For an even better explanation see @Serg.

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Your applications can not run because they want to find libraries and those are misplaced too. Try using busybox directly.

bin/busybox ls

should work as ls and so on.

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