Moving files
■ mv
• Warning: will silently overwrite existing files!
• Arguments: a source filename and a target filename
Command New file
mv a b ./b “rename”
mvadir/b dir/b
• Other form: one or more source filenames and a target directory
• Use it to move directories as well
mvabcdir dir/a, dir/b, dir/c
mv dir/a. ./a
mv* dir
dir/…
Moves all files in current directory
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