On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 16:25 +0100, 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
> 

On my system I have no directory /usr/share/bin.  So unless you know
that you had one (for whatever reason), you have done no damage.

Tony

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