I did something stupid on a remote linux server:my working directory was /some/directoryI ran for dir in $(ls | grep a_pattern); do mv $d/* ./my_subdirectory; doneNow /some/directory/my_subdirectory contains things like bin boot dev and home, which are definitely not supposed to be thereFeel free to point out how stupid #2 was.  If I understand my error correctly, $d was empty (I meant to type $dir -- maybe even with that fix it would be a poorly-crafted command, but I should close this parenthesis), so basically the command I ran was mv /* ./my_subdirectory.When I realized what I'd done I hit ctrl-c ctrl-c, so the command was interrupted before it finished.My question has two parts: first, what should I do to fix this; and second, did my command actually move things out of /, or did it just copy them?I did run mv, do I'd expect it moved things, and yet I don't see anything under ./my_subdirectory which is missing from /.  Let me know if I'm being unclear here.  For example, /some/directory/my_subdirectory/bin contains bash, cat, mount and mkdir, but those programs are still present under /bin, as if they were copied and not moved.  Why is that?  Can I safely delete everything under /some/directory/my_subdirectory, or would that be a terrible mistake?Following tad's suggestion in the comments, here is some of the output from find ./my_subdirectory -type f:./my_subdirectory/bin/umount./my_subdirectory/bin/date./my_subdirectory/bin/sort./my_subdirectory/bin/red./my_subdirectory/bin/dumpkeys./my_subdirectory/bin/sleep./my_subdirectory/bin/readlink./my_subdirectory/bin/mv..../my_subdirectory/etc/security/pam_env.conf./my_subdirectory/etc/security/chroot.conf./my_subdirectory/etc/security/access.conf./my_subdirectory/etc/security/namespace.init./my_subdirectory/etc/security/group.conf./my_subdirectory/etc/security/console.handlersI checked and those files still exist under /etc and /bin.  When I run diff ./my_subdirectory/etc /etc I get common subdirectories, some that are only in /etc, but nothing that is only in ./my_subdirectory/etc.  So it seems that things were copied rather than moved.  Is that to be expected given that I did not run the mv command as sudo?
I accidentally copied part of /* to /some/directory, how should I fix my mistake?
shell script;wildcards;mv;etc