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- MV
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- Purpose
- move files and directories
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- Syntax
- mv [-fiv] [-] file file
- mv [-fiv] [-] file... dir
- mv [-fiv] [-] dir dir
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- Comments
- Mv moves files and, if to the same disk, directories, from one place to
- another. Mv will simply rename each argument, if possible; if not, it
- will copy it and delete the original. It is possible to trick mv into
- destroying a file by moving it onto itself (which rewrites and then
- removes it). However, it guards against incomplete moving of directory
- trees to different disks by disallowing it; use the combination of cp -r
- and rm -r instead. The destination can otherwise be a drive specifier,
- a directory, or a filename.
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- If a file which would be overwritten has the readonly attribute set, mv
- prints a warning message and reads a line from the standard input; if
- the line does not begin with 'y' or 'Y', the move does not take place.
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- Options
- - interpret all following arguments as filenames (used to move
- files with names that start with a '-').
- -f force; don't quit if errors are encountered, override any readonly
- attributes, and don't display any error messages.
- -i interactive; ask whether to overwrite existing files.
- -v verbose; display the name of each file as it is moved.
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