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When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
Let's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux and how to recover from that. The easy
The easy solution for everything is to replace the missing files, but this can be difficult if/lib is deleted because we won’t have ld-linux, which is needed to run any dynamic executable. Please note that you need to set the environment variable LANG to C; Otherwise, this script will incorrectly handle Unicode bytes. Output exampleOf course, we can also write a complete program that makes the TCP connection instead of relying on bash redirection.
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