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mv

Moves or renames one or more remote files.

mv <file> [ <file2> ... ] [ <directory>/ ][ <newname> ]

Destination directory or newname or both must be specified. Destination directory must end with slash. Operation mask can be used instead of new name. Filename can be replaced with wildcard to select multiple files.

Alias: rename

XML log element: mv

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Examples

mv index.html public_html/
mv index.html about.*
mv index.html public_html/about.*
mv public_html/index.html public_html/about.html /home/martin/*.bak
mv *.html /home/backup/*.bak

Last modified: by Petr