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Tip Of My Tongue

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Story from the 70s/80s about recovering a Unix system after rm -rf / (FOUND) (lemmy.world)
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Somebody accidentally deleted most of the system. There were no executables for any shells, text editors, or utilities. All they had was a single terminal that was still logged in as root. I think they had to manually type in some executable's machine code and echo it into a file.

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[โ€“] madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably this one: UNIX Recovery Legend https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

[โ€“] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you.