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mv - move (rename) files
mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
Rename SOURCE to DEST, or move
SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory
for short options too.
- --backup[=CONTROL]
- make a backup of each existing destination
file
- -b
- like --backup but does not accept an argument
- -f, --force
- do not prompt
before overwriting
- -i, --interactive
- prompt before overwrite
- --strip-trailing-slashes
- remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE argument
- -S, --suffix=SUFFIX
- override the usual backup suffix
- -t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY
- move all
SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY
- -T, --no-target-directory
- treat DEST as a normal
file
- -u, --update
- move only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
- -v, --verbose
- explain what is
being done
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information
and exit
The backup suffix is ‘~’, unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX.
The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through
the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values:
- none, off
- never make backups (even if --backup is given)
- numbered, t
- make numbered
backups
- existing, nil
- numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
- simple, never
- always make simple backups
Written by Mike Parker,
David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
rename(2)
The full
documentation for mv is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and
mv programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils
’mv invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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