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Changing the name of a file
The Unix
mv
command can be used to change the name of a file:
%
mv
oldname newname
This will not affect the contents of the file. It will simply change its name from
oldname
to
newname
.
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John Shipman,
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Last updated: 1995/12/04 19:39:34 UT
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/mv.html