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mv moves things, and renaming is just moving to a new name in the same place. Unlike cp, the original is gone afterwards.
This lab is the hands-on companion to the mv (Move) lesson from Linux Journey (CC BY-SA 4.0).
mv oldfile newfile
ls
Directories rename the same way, contents included:
mv drafts final
ls final
List the files, then the destination directory last:
mv file_1 file_2 somedirectory/
ls somedirectory
-v reports each move, which is reassuring with wildcards:
mv -v *.txt Documents/
renamed 'a.txt' -> 'Documents/a.txt'
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mv old new renames a file or directory.mv a b dir/ moves several items into a directory.-v reports each move.