Your file has been renamed to "..." do an ls -a
to see dot files.
Try mv ... ../myfile.txt
to get do what you originally wanted.
Domanda
This is probably a very stupid question, but is it possible that files can be deleted with the "mv" command? I'm asking because I when I was attempting to move a file up to its parent directory, I accidentally typed one "." too many and now I can't find my file.
So instead of:
$ mv myfile.txt ..
I had put:
$ mv myfile.txt ...
Now my file is gone. Did I delete it accidentally, and is it possible to get it back at all?
Thanks!
Soluzione
Your file has been renamed to "..." do an ls -a
to see dot files.
Try mv ... ../myfile.txt
to get do what you originally wanted.
Altri suggerimenti
you file is now named as ...
, check it with ls -al
in your current dir.
On UNIX systems, file names starting with a dot are hidden from directory listings by default.
ls -lA
will display dot files.
You can rename the file back
mv ... myfile.txt
Your file is now called ...
and is not visible thru the simple ls
command.
Use ls -a
to make "system" files (starting with a dot) visible or rename it back mv ... your_file
.
And to answer the title-question:
Yes and no.
It' s not possible, but moving the file to /dev/null
will delete it as well. :D