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I made a mistake when moving a set of file by this command mv src/* .. instead of mv src/* .

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You can try using find to discover which files in ".." was modified at the time you made the erroneous mv, and then mv them in the right place again (using -exec find option for example).

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Thanks for your suggestion ! I use this command find ../* -mmin -5 -type f -exec mv '{}' . ; I saw that it mv all the file in parent directory include file're not modified. Do you have any ideas for this command ? – billyduc Sep 10 '09 at 2:57
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You cannot 'undo' it easily other than by sorting out which files belong where and to move them back again. Alternatively, you could restore from a backup and then compare the files from the backup and the present system to help.

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I don't think there's any. Same goes with rm, which is different from trashing.

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