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Am trying a published solution to remove systemd-shim error after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 but get a bash syntax error as follows (you can see I tried different permutations of the same command in terminal).

screenshot of script error

I don't understand why it results in this error.

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chris sailor
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    <original file name> and <new file name> are only place holders for real file names you should exchange them with real file names, could you post which instruction you are following? – Ravexina Sep 02 '18 at 13:28
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I guess you are following this instruction.

As I said in comments, <original file name> and <new file name> are only place holders for real file names and you should exchange them with those names.

So the real command is:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.bk

which you can simplify to:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service{,.bk}
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You get this error message because < is used for redirection. If you quote the arguments to mv with single quotes you get a clearer error message:

$ mv  '<original file name>' '<new file name>'
mv: cannot stat ‘<original file name>’: No such file or directory
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