Home folder missed after “sudo mv -t /usr/local/src ~/”

Question

My home folder is missing after I run this command

sudo mv -t /usr/local/src ~/

How can I recover this?

Aimon Bustardo · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-16 07:21:56Z

up vote 2 down vote accepted

Basically you moved your home dir to /usr/local/src .. just need to move it back:

$myuser="my_user_name"
sudo mv -t /ur/local/src/$myuser /home/ && chown -R $myuser:myuser ~

Unless it actually moved to root user home dir and you want:

$myuser="my_user_name"
sudo mv -t /ur/local/src/$myuser / && chown -R $myuser:myuser ~

answered Nov 16 '12 at 7:21

Aimon Bustardo
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chown -R should not be necessary... – glglgl Nov 16 '12 at 7:27

I usd the -t accidently and I do't know the effect. It is recoverd now. Thank you very much. – Colin Xie Nov 16 '12 at 7:30

Glad to be up service Colin Xie. – Aimon Bustardo Nov 23 '12 at 8:55

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