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Hello there, you beautiful people.

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And welcome to this video where you're going to learn everything you need to know are all about moving

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and renaming files and directories using the command line.

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Now, the interesting thing is both of these functions can be completed with just one command.

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So in this video you're going to learn how to use the MV command to move and rename files and folders.

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And by learning the one command we're going to cover in this video, you're going to gain two very important

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abilities for working with your file system.

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Talk about efficiency, huh?

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So let's go ahead and get right into it.

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Okay.

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So let's first talk about renaming files.

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Now on the desktop, I have a file called Old Name txt and I want to rename it to be called new name.

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TXT very imaginative.

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I know.

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Now to do this to this rename, it's really very simple to do using the MV command.

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So first let me get to the desktop.

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So now I'm on the desktop where the files actually are.

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And to rename old name, to be new name, all I have to do is just do mzvee then old name dot txt,

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which is the current name of the file and then give it its new name which is new name dot txt.

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And when I press enter you'll see that the file has been renamed and we can see that using the LS command

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as well.

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It's now new name.

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TXT simple.

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And the same thing works for directories.

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So I have a folder here called old folder.

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And as we can see, old folder actually contains a few files.

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So it's got file one to file ten inside there now to rename old folder to be called new folder.

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And if I clear the screen, all I need to do is move old folder, new folder and when I press enter

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we can see that the folder has been renamed and it's just that simple.

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And even though we've just changed the name of the folder, if we open it up, all the files are still

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in there exactly as they were before.

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So renaming folders doesn't damage any of the contents inside.

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So with that said, how can we move files from one folder into another folder?

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This is also actually really simple.

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All we need to do is give the move command what we want to move and then the directory that we want

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to move them to.

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So this is very similar to the copy command.

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With the copy command, you gave it a list of all the things you wanted to copy.

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And then the final command line argument you gave it was where you wanted to move it, to copy it to

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sorry.

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And it's the same idea with the mov command.

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So if we want to move everything from a new folder onto the desktop, then all we'd have to do is say

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move from new folder, move new folder, everything in there to here, which is the desktop.

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So the dot remember means the current working directory and as you can see from the shell prompt, that

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is the desktop.

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So what we're saying is move everything from within new folder to the current working directory, which

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is the desktop.

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So if I press enter, you'll see that all of the files have been shifted onto onto the desktop, which

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we can see using LRS.

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We've got file 1 to 10 and if we look inside new folder, we can see that they haven't just been copied.

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They have indeed been moved because the folder is completely empty.

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Okay.

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So let's move all of these files back into a new folder.

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So if I move everything that starts with file back into new folder, that should take care of all that.

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So there we go.

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We've moved them all back into this new folder folder.

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Okay, now how can we move the whole of new folder just as one go?

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How can we move this into our documents folder, for example?

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Well, that's really easy to do as well.

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And it works just like you might expect.

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We just do move new folder and where's our destination where we want it to go into the documents folder,

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which is in our home directory.

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So we put the tilde to say our home directory slash and then documents.

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So the documents folder inside our home directory we press enter.

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And now when we look inside our home directory and go into our documents folder, there we are.

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There's new folder sitting there all, all intact.

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So now for the jackpot.

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How can I move new folder inside of documents or move it somewhere and rename it at the same time?

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So let's say I want to move it from our documents folder to the desktop and rename it to B jackpot at

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the same time.

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So how would we do that?

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Well, first we need to sell it.

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We need to tell the move command what we want to move.

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So let's say we want to move the new folder folder inside our our documents folder.

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And this this is something you should be comfortable with, by the way, using the tilde to represent

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your home folder, then documents, then new folder.

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This slash at the end is optional, but I think it comes with the tab auto completion.

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So we'll we'll leave it there.

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Okay.

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Now we're where do we want to move it to?

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We want to move it to our desktop so we could say this current working directory because as you can

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see we're on the desktop so we're going to move it to current working directory, but we're going to

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call it jackpot.

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Sorry, jackpot.

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Now because the jackpot folder doesn't exist, new folder will become jackpot.

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So if I press enter, we'll see that jackpot has been created inside.

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There are all the content or every single one of the files from new folder.

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And if we go back in to our documents, we will see that new folder is no longer there.

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So what happened?

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We said move the new folder folder from within our documents folder and put it in this directory, which

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is the desktop, but as of as a folder called jackpot.

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So that is how you can move a folder and rename it at the same time.

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Pretty awesome stuff, right?

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So there you have it.

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The MV command is a very simple but very effective command for anything that you'll ever need to do

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with moving or renaming files.

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And in this video, you've seen how to move and rename files and directories using the MV command,

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and this is how it works.

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So if you want to move files and directories, first you type the MV command, then you give it as command

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line arguments, everything that you want to move and you can give it multiple of those.

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And then the final command line argument is the destination of where you want to move all of those things

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to.

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And if you want to rename files and directories, we can only do one at a time, but you give it what

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you want to rename and then the new name and location if you want to move and rename at the same time.

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And you've seen her to do that in this video.

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So just remember that if you ever want to move or rename a file, the MV command is what you need.

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So in the last few videos you've learned how to modify the file tree quite a lot.

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You can now create files and directories using the touch and mkdir commands.

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You can delete files and directories using the M and RMD commands.

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You can copy files and directories using the CPP command and you can even move and rename files and

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directories using the MV command.

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Well, in the next video you're going to learn how to actually edit these files using the command line.

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Now, obviously, this is going to be something that you'll do all the time.

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So for all that good stuff, I'll see you in the next video.