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Move and rename files and dirs

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Move and rename files and dirs

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- [Instructor] When Linux copies a file, it copies the file data blocks to a new location on the disk. When moving a file between file systems, Linux copies the data blocks to the new location and then deletes the original data blocks. If however, the source and destination are on the same file system, Linux treats the file differently. If we have a file at /home/bob/file1.txt and we want to move it to /home/ted, we'd use the move command, or mv command. Since both of these locations are on the same hard drive, Linux just updates the file's location in the file system. This is very fast because no data is actually being moved on the disk. We can also move a file from a directory to the same directory, as long as we specify a different name. If we move /home/ted/file1.txt to /home/ted/file2.txt, it effectively renames it. This is why we use the mv command to rename files in Linux. The syntax for move is mv, which is the…

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