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Subject: Re: make, etc, whereis, commands broken
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Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> writes:

> i was clearing out some files in /usr and accidentally did something and now 
> command such as:  clear, make, whereis no longer work ... how can i get them 
> back to working ?

That depends on what you did.  If they're completely gone, you'll need
to get them back; backups are the traditional way of fixing this.  In
the worst case, a complete base system reinstall (possibly updating
from source, if you have enough of your system left to do that) will
fix it up.