Moving and Renaming Files and Directories
Learn how to move and rename files and directories using the mv command.
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The mv
command
File names need to change, and things need occasional reorganization. We use the mv
file to perform both of these operations. It works almost exactly like the cp
command, except that the syntax is identical for moving files and directories. To move a file, we specify the source path and the destination path. Let’s try it out.
First, we rename the files/documents/markdown
directory. We name it employee_handbook
instead:
mkdir -p files/{movies,music,photos,docs/{diagrams,markdown},code/{go,js,elm}}
touch files/docs/markdown/chapter{1..3}.md
mkdir files/backups
clear
mv files/docs/markdown files/docs/employee_handbook
ls files/docs/markdown
ls files/docs/employee_handbook
Run the complete code on the terminal below for practice.
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