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 /home/user/work/examples; there are two files named file1.txt and file2.txt; there is a sub-directory named finished.
Note that these examples could not be run in order.
To "rename" file, just move it to a file with a different name
user@host:examples$ mv file.txt newname.txt
move the file to a subdirectory
user@host:examples$ mv file.txt finished/
