http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=MvMv - Revision history2026-05-01T07:46:03ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.18.0http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Mv&diff=10165&oldid=prevDrModiford: Expanded the article on the mv command2008-05-10T18:27:48Z<p>Expanded the article on the mv command</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mv </del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- move. The equivalent of "rename", since on unix systems, a file's full location is the same thing as it's name.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{System</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Commands}}</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Use: </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </ins>'''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mv</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' command is used </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''move'' files around </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file system.  It can also be used to rename files.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> samizdata# mv /home/dave/myfile /tmp/myfile</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">moves </del>''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">myfile</del>'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">from /home/dave/ </del>to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/tmp/ directory</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Common Flags</del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moving file(s) ==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The obvious use for the mv command, as it's name implies, is to move files from one location on a file system to another, both to and from locally attached or network share file systems.  Some examples:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This will simply move the file 'song.ogg' (a sound file) from the Bob's user directory into his dedicated directory called 'mymusic'.  This could also be done from the directory itself, using what is known as relative paths:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The other use for the mv command is to rename files.  This is because there is no 'rename' command as found on other operating systems (Microsoft's DOS, for example, uses the command 'ren' to rename files separate from the 'move' command to move files).  The mv command will rename a file when only two filenames are provided, without a directory path, for example:</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>DrModifordhttp://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Mv&diff=4803&oldid=prevJimbo at 04:20, 24 December 20042004-12-24T04:20:08Z<p></p>
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</table>Jimbohttp://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Mv&diff=794&oldid=prevDave at 22:25, 23 December 20042004-12-23T22:25:08Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>mv -- move. The equivalent of "rename", since on unix systems, a file's full location is the same thing as it's name.<br />
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Use: <br />
samizdata# mv /home/dave/myfile /tmp/myfile<br />
moves ''myfile'' from /home/dave/ to the /tmp/ directory<br />
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==Common Flags==<br />
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-v verbose<br />
-i prompt before overwriting existing files <br />
-n no-overwriting existing files -- cancels any previous -f switches<br />
-f force -- cancels out any previous -i or -n switches</div>Dave