Re: /bin contents

[Tim Kelley <tim@it.kpt.cc>]

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:03, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:28, Don Hayward wrote:
> > Is there a package that contains the standard contents of the /bin
> > directory?  I erred.
>
> The following should get all the packages which had files in /bin
> reinstalled: (one line)
>
> apt-get install --reinstall `dpkg -S /bin/[a-z]* | awk
> 'BEGIN{FS=":"};{print $1}' | sort | uniq`

actually that won't work since you don't have /bin/sh ...
you may need to somehow get coreutils and bash installed first.

hope you didn't log out ...

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