Moving and Renaming Files and Folders
Description
How to move and rename files and directories using the command line
Syntax
| mv oldname.txt newname.txt | Rename file from oldname.txt to newname.txt | |
| mv oldfolder/ newfolder | Rename folder from oldfolder to newfolder | |
| mv newfolder/* . | Move everything from newfolder to current working directory | |
| mv file* newfolder/ | Move all files starting with 'file' to newfolder | |
| mv newfolder/ ~/Documents/ | Move the entire 'newfolder' folder into the Documents folder in our home directory | |
| mv ~/Documents/newfolder ./jackpot | Move 'Documemnts/newfolder' folder inside 'jackpot' folder and rename at the same time | |
Examples