A Quick Introduction to Unix/Moving Files

Moving files mv (move) Suppose that you want to rename a file. In Unix, we talk about moving the file and the command that does it is mv. For example mv file1 file2 moves (or renames) file1 to file2. This differs from copying the file: you end up with only one file rather than two. You can move files across directories by specifying the pathname just as you can for the cp or copy command.