Moving one file

Sometimes, you may want to move a file (or a directory) to a different location instead of copying and wasting disk space.

To do this, you can use the mv command. For example, you can move the file copycats.txt from Elliot's home directory to /tmp by running the mv copycats.txt /tmp command:

elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ mv copycats.txt /tmp
elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ ls
apple.txt   carrot.txt cities d2  Desktop  Downloads
banana.txt  cats.txt   d1     d3  dir1     Pictures
elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ cd /tmp
elliot@ubuntu-linux:/tmp$ ls
apple.txt  carrot.txt cats.txt copycats.txt d2
banana.txt cats2.txt  cities   d1           d3

Notice that copycats.txt is now gone from Elliot's home directory as it relocated to /tmp.