mv<\/b> is the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nmv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST\nmv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY\nmv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nLet’s rename a text file using the mv<\/b> command. List the content of the current directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\nroot@host:\/var\/www\/html# ls -al\ntotal 8\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 09:41 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 2 09:13 ..\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 09:41 test.txt\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nTo rename the test.txt<\/b> file, execute the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\nmv test.txt test-renamed.txt<\/pre>\n\n\n\nList the content of the directory again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 09:41 test-renamed.txt<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIf you go one level up you can rename the html<\/b> directory as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\nmv html html.backup<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe mv<\/b> command will apply to files and folders:<\/p>\n\n\n\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 05:43 html.backup<\/pre>\n\n\n\nNext example is to move, the file or directory to a different location on your server. Let’s move the html.backup to a different location:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mv html.backup\/ \/opt\/<\/pre>\n\n\n\nList the content of the opt<\/b> directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\nroot@host:\/var\/www# ls -al \/opt\/\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 09:43 html.backup\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThere are plenty of options that you can use with the mv<\/b> command, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n-i Before overwriting we get a prompt\n-f Overwrite without warning and prompting\n-v Shows a verbose output\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nFor more information about the mv<\/b> command, you can check by executing the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\nman mv<\/pre>\n\n\n\nYou will get a very long description of the mv<\/b> command as an output.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRename a file in Lunix using the rename<\/b> command<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To use the rename command, we need to install the rename<\/b> package first with the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\napt install rename<\/pre>\n\n\n\nOnce installed, you can check the version with the command below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rename -V<\/pre>\n\n\n\nYou will get output similar to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
root@host:# rename -V\n\/usr\/bin\/rename using File::Rename version 1.30, File::Rename::Options version 1.10\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe syntax for the rename<\/b> command is the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\nrename [options] 's\/[pattern]\/[replacement]\/' [file name]<\/pre>\n\n\n\nLet’s say that we have three different text files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
root@host:\/var\/www# ls -al\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file1.txt\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file2.txt\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file3.txt\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nTo rename all these files with the rename<\/b> you need to execute the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\nrename 's\/txt\/backup\/' *.txt<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIf you list the content now, you will see the following output:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
root@host:\/var\/www# ls -al\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file1.backup\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file2.backup\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 10:38 file3.backup\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nTo know more about the rename command you can execute the man rename<\/b> in your command line.<\/p>\n\n\n\nroot@host:# man rename\nRENAME(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation RENAME(1p)\n\nNAME\n rename - renames multiple files\n\nSYNOPSIS\n rename [ -h|-m|-V ] [ -v ] [ -0 ] [ -n ] [ -f ] [ -d ] [ -u [enc]] [ -e|-E perlexpr]*|perlexpr [ files ]\n\nDESCRIPTION\n \"rename\" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression which is expected\n to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the expression, it will not be\n renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.\n\n Examples (Larry Wall, 1992)\n For example, to rename all files matching \"*.bak\" to strip the extension, you might say\n\n rename 's\/\\.bak$\/\/' *.bak\n\n To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use\n\n rename 'y\/A-Z\/a-z\/' *\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nRename a file in Lunix using the mmv<\/b> command<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The mmv<\/b> command is used for moving, copying, appending, and linking source files to the target file specified with the pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we want to use the mmv<\/b> command we need to install the mmv packet first.<\/p>\n\n\n\napt install mmv<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe syntax of the mmv<\/b> command is the following one:<\/p>\n\n\n\nmmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [--] [from to]<\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe usage is simple. To rename the file1.backup<\/b> file back to file1.txt<\/b> execute the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n mmv file1.backup file1.txt<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIf you want to know more information about this command, you can execute man mmv<\/b> command in your prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\nroot@host:\/var\/www# man mmv\nMMV(1) General Commands Manual MMV(1)\n\nNAME\n mmv - move\/copy\/append\/link multiple files by wildcard patterns\n\nSYNOPSIS\n mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [--] [from to]\n\nEXAMPLES\n Rename all *.jpeg files in the current directory to *.jpg:\n\n mmv '*.jpeg' '#1.jpg'\n\n Replace the first occurrence of abc with xyz in all files in the current directory:\n\n mmv '*abc*' '#1xyz#2'\n\n Rename files ending in .html.en, .html.de, etc. to ending in .en.html, .de.html, etc. in the current directory:\n\n mmv '*.html.??' '#1.#2#3.html'\n\n Rename music files from