multiple files moved mistakenly in single file

[abdulsami]

Dear All,

while trying to move multiples files from one location document, multiple files moved into single file due to typing error in directory name. like,

mv file1 file2 file3 mydr

here mistakenly user written mydr instead of mydir and resultantly files moved to mydr file, and we are stuck in how to recover back them this single file.

Any help in this regard would be highly updated.

Regards,

[lambda]

how did that happen? when i try it, it doesn't work:

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$ echo a > a
$ echo b > b
$ echo c > c
$ mkdir t
$ mv a b c d
mv: target `d' is not a directory
$ ls -l a b c d
ls: cannot access d: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2 2010-05-19 12:51 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2 2010-05-19 12:51 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2 2010-05-19 12:51 c
$ 

on freebsd:

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$ echo a > a
$ echo b > b
$ echo c > c
$ mkdir t
$ mv a b c d
usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
$