The mv Command

Apr30
by Ike on April 30, 2018 at 4:50 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

The move command can be used to move files around or rename them. There are a lot of flags that you can use with the move command but , they are rarely used by me.  I will list a few options below to give you an idea of what you can do with the mv command

SYNOPSIS

 mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY

mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...

 

Examples

Rename temp.txt to temp.bak

mv temp.txt temp.bak

Move temp.txt into /home/temp/
mv temp.txt /home/temp/

 

Common Flags

-f  Do not prompt before overwriting

-i  Do prompt before overwriting

-v  Be verbose, explain what is being done

 

<a href="http://ss64.com/bash/mv.html">Check out all the options available with mv at the full man page</a>