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accidental deletion of /etc/profile on MDK9.2

i was amending the /etc/profile file to put in an export for my java installation with kate and though I pressed save it actually nuked the file! i can't log in accept as root and i have no idea how to get the file back.Could someone post me a copy of theirs if that's ok so I can put it back on my system or is that not a valid way of fixing this?
can MDK9.2 regenerate the file if I use the cd in rescue mode and if so what are the commands to issue/url to peruse for a run through of what to do?
Hope someone can help and thanks for your time.

Code:

# /etc/profile -*- Mode: shell-script -*- 

# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>



loginsh=1



# Users generally won't see annoyng core files

[ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1



if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then

    PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"

fi



if [ "$UID" -ge 500 ] && ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then

    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games

fi



umask 022



USER=`id -un`

LOGNAME=$USER

MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"

HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`

HISTSIZE=1000



if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then

    INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc

fi



# some old programs still use it (eg: "man"), and it is also

# required for level1 compliance for LI18NUX2000

NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N



export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME INPUTRC NLSPATH

export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE 



for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do

        if [ -x $i ]; then

                . $i

        fi

done



unset i

I do stupid things like that all the time and I find it very useful to have at least one other Linux install that I can boot into if I need to fix /etc/fstab or whatever I've screwed up this time. I just mounted my Mandrake 9.2 partition on /mnt/mandrake to be able to copy and paste that. If I needed I could edit it any way I choose. My old faithful is Mandrake 9.1. I can install it with Gnome and all the development tools to build Linux From Scratch on a partition that's only 800Mb. It's a tiny thing but it's very powerful to have a backup boot option.

Thanks a lot for that it saved my life and sanity.I'm toying with putting stuff like this inb a cvs repository ion the future - just in case.