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moved Mv Examples to Command Line Examples: mv

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The mv command will do different things depending on how many arguments you give it.



In the following examples, assume that we are in the directory <code>/home/user/work/examples</code>; there are two files named <code>file1.txt</code> and <code>file2.txt</code>; there is a sub-directory named <code>finished</code>.

Note that these examples could not be run in order.





To "rename" file, just move it to a file with a different name

 <code>

 user@host:examples$ mv file.txt newname.txt

 </code>



move the file to a subdirectory

 <code>

 user@host:examples$ mv file.txt finished/

 </code>

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   </code>
-move a file to a subdirectory
+move a file to the directory above
   <code>
-  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv file1.txt finished/
+  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv file1.txt ../
   </code>

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 The mv command will do different things depending on how many arguments you give it.
-In the following examples, assume that we are in the directory <code>/home/user/work/examples</code>; there are two files named <code>file1.txt</code> and <code>file2.txt</code>; there is a sub-directory named <code>finished</code>.
+In the following examples, assume that we are in the directory <code>/home/user/work/examples</code>; there are two files named <code>file1.txt</code> and <code>file2.txt</code>; there is a sub-directory named <code>finished</code>; there is also a directory named <code>/home/user/work/tmp</code> on the system.
 Note that these examples could not be run in order.
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   <code>
   user@host:~/work/examples$ mv *.txt finished/
   </code>

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 To "rename" file, just move it to a file with a different name
   <code>
-  user@host:examples$ mv file1.txt newname.txt
+  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv file1.txt newname.txt
   </code>
 move a file to a subdirectory
   <code>
-  user@host:examples$ mv file1.txt finished/
+  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv file1.txt finished/
   </code>
 move two files to a subdirectory
   <code>
-  user@host:examples$ mv file1.txt file2.txt finished/
+  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv file1.txt file2.txt finished/
   </code>
 move all files ending with .txt to a subdirectory
   <code>
-  user@host:examples$ mv *.txt finished/
+  user@host:~/work/examples$ mv *.txt finished/
   </code>

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Command Line Examples: mv - Revision history

Cclark: moved Mv Examples to Command Line Examples: mv

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Cclark at 14:46, 7 February 2013

Cclark: Created page with "The mv command will do different things depending on how many arguments you give it. In the following examples, assume that we are in the directory /home/user/work/example…"

Cclark: Created page with "The mv command will do different things depending on how many arguments you give it. In the following examples, assume that we are in the directory `/home/user/work/example…"`