error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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I was debugging an error on my system (debian linux) and part of that I renamed the libc.so.6 file to something else.

$ sudo mv libc.so.6 libc-2.28.so.6

Now none of my bash commands will work.

$ ls
ls: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ sudo mv libc-2.28.so.6 libc.so.6
sudo: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How can I fix this please?

The file exists but I can't rename it back:

$ ./libc-2.28.so.6
GNU C Library (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10+deb10u2) stable release version 2.28.
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 8.3.0.
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC ABSOLUTE
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.

Please refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic, Ubuntu and official flavors of Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) are on-topic on this site. The on-topic link provides alternate SE sites for non-Ubuntu OSes. Your packages are all EOL in Ubuntu systems — guiverc, Jun 05 '23 at 22:47
If your system includes the statically-linked busybox, you may be able to use that - see for example After accidentally renaming /usr, how do I rename it back? — steeldriver, Jun 05 '23 at 22:54

error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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