AHHHH! What do I do?

[Minime80]

Here's the scoop. I've been logging into (SSH) my school's Unix network for a couple weeks now and for some odd reason I decided I didn't need so many hidden .whatever files so I deleted a few. Now when I login the CLI is just a ">" instead of my name and path and stuff with the "$". Also, it can't find a lot of commands now like vim and dir. It'll let me do ls and vi though. So, what the hell do I do to fix this thing? I promise I'll never touch another .whatever file as long as I live if someone can help me with this. Thanks.

[Dave's not here]

I would imagine the files that you deleted included .bashrc, .cshrc, or some .*rc files that contain the profile for how the terminal displays your stuff. You may have also deleted some of the config files for other apps (.appnamerc). My advice would be to find a friend who has the same access to the network that you do and copy his/her resource files (.*rc) to your directory and edit them as need be. Reconstructing them from scratch would be painful. gl :)