How to Move or Rename Files in Linux

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today, I'm going to show you how to move or rename files in Linux. Let's open up our command line. Just do a directory listing. To move or rename a file, there's a single command called "mv", which means move. When you move a file, it's exactly the same thing as renaming it. So, let's say I want to rename my public.tar file. To rename it, just say "mv", space, your input file- public.tar, and what you'd like to call it. I'm going to call it "public.tar2". And just press enter. As you can see, public.tar has disappeared and has been replaced with tar2. Let's say I want to move that public.tar2 file to the "Videos" folder. Just say "mv", same command, public.tar2, which is the file we want to move, and the folder we want to put it in plus the new file name. Let's say "Videos" and we want to still call it "public.tar2". If I do a directory listing, public.tar2 is missing. And if I go to "Videos", it is now under that folder. My name is Dave Andrews. And I've just showed you how to move or rename files in Linux."