Hi all, we already discussed about the move (mv) command and the different switches of mv command. Here, we can use the “mv” command to rename a file or directory under Linux.
Syntax:
mv name newname
Where;
name – is the name of File/Dir
newname – is the new name for selected File/Dir
Example:
Here, I’ve created one folder “CryBit” to illustrate the usage of “mv”.
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir CryBit
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[root@localhost ~]# ll -d CryBit/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 21:03 CryBit/
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Renaming CryBit directory to Test.
[root@localhost ~]# mv CryBit/ Test
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[root@localhost ~]# ll -d CryBit/
ls: cannot access CryBit/: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# ll -d Test/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 21:03 Test/
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That’s it..!! 🙂
Other useful Linux commands:
groupdel, groupmems, groupmod, useradd , usermod , chgrp, chown, ls, head, tail, top, ps, find, crontab, ftp commands, tar, rpm, rkhunter, Rsync, grep, OpenVZ commands, lsof command
