Subject: Rename File on Unix / Linux
Author: Unix
Posted on: 11/08/2011 01:13:36 PM

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To rename a file, you can do it like this:

$ mv -i dir1/file1 dir2/file2

If file2 doesn't exist, it'll be created, but if it exists, it'll be overwritten.

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