HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

mv

The mv command is used to move a file or directory from one location to another location. You can also move multiple files.

The following example shows a listing of a directory, the move of file krsort.c to krsort.test.c within this directory, and a listing of the directory showing that the file has been moved:

$ ls -l
total 168
-rwxr-xr-x   1 denise   users    34592 Oct 31 15:17 krsort
-rwxr-xr-x   1 denise   users     3234 Oct 31 15:17 krsort.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 denise   users     2756 Oct 31 15:17 krsort.dos
-rw-r--r--   1 denise   users     9922 Oct 31 15:17 krsort.q
-rwxr-xr-x   1 denise   users    3085 Oct 31 15:17 krsortorig.c
$ mv krsort.c krsort.test.c
$ ls -l total 168 -rwxr-xr-x 1 denise users 34592 Oct 31 15:17 krsort -rwxr-xr-x 1 denise users 32756 Oct 31 15:17 krsort.dos ...