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sudo rm -f /lib /usr/share/backup/blah blah.tar.gz
Note the space.
Oh man, you really owned those libs
You need to use chown if you want to own the libs
Note the past tense
Might be recoverable if you had a live distro ready. Otherwise, o7.
Oh no, this was back in the days when we loaded our distros by way of a stack of floppy disks.
Top tip, if tired, replace the
rm -f
part of the command with something innocuous for a first run. Actually, is better to do this mistake once so that the two important lessons are learned... Backup (obviously, in your case it was backups, but the point still stands) and double check your command if it has potential for destruction 👍spaces in rm are a classic one, they're even mentioned in the Unix-haters handbook