Editing Mv (Unix) (section)

==Examples==

The following renames file or directory '''foo''' to '''bar'''. This assumes that '''bar''' is not an existing directory beforehand.

 $ mv foo bar

The following moves the file or directory '''foo''' into the existing subdirectory '''subdir''' so that the result is at path '''subdir/foo'''.

 $ mv foo subdir

The following moves the file or directory '''foo''' into directory '''subdir''' with name '''bar''' so that the resulting is path '''subdir/bar'''. This assumes that '''subdir/bar''' is not an existing directory beforehand.

 $ mv foo subdir/bar

The following moves two files/directories, '''foo''' and '''bar''', to existing directory '''subdir'''.

 $ mv foo bar subdir

Copy '''be.03''' to the '''bes''' directory of the [[Mount (computing)|mounted]] volume '''bkup''', then '''be.03''' is removed. In this example, '''/mnt''' refers to the directory (the "mount point") over which a file system is mounted.

 $ mv be.03 /mnt/bkup/bes

Same as above, except each file moved out of '''be.03''' is removed individually instead of all being removed at once after the entire copying is finished.

 $ mv be.03/* /mnt/bkup/bes

The following takes longer than expected if '''/var''' is on a different file system, as it frequently is, since files will be copied and removed. The shell expands <code>~</code> to the user's [[home directory]] and treats <code>*</code> as a [[wildcard character]]. 

 $ mv /var/log/*z ~/logs