Accidental overwrite of .bashrc with different script.

AceOfSpade · 01-23-2011, 11:08 PM

Hey, so I have been working on this script and I just made a ridiculous error. I tried to move my script out of my home directory and for some reason I put in "mv myscript .bashrc" Now my .bashrc file has nothing but my script in there... I think I may have overwritten some important info. How do I fix this? Is running cp /root/.bashrc ~ Enough?

RockDoctor · 01-24-2011, 05:53 AM

If it wasn't customized,

Code:

cp /etc/skel/.bashrc $HOME

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Kenny_Strawn · 01-24-2011, 09:28 AM

There is a file called /etc/bash.bashrc that you can use to restore the user bashrc file. No, it is not /etc/skel/bashrc in Ubuntu; that's for other distros.

This will restore your bashrc back to where it was. Log into a standard user account and type:

Code:

sudo cp /etc/bash.bashrc /root

This assumes you disrupted the root bashrc, which seems like so seeing as though it's /root/.bashrc.