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Move or rename files
Use "mv source destination" command
mv /home/myuser/text.txt /home/myuser/Documents/text.csv
Example: moving the ".config" files to ".config3", then moving ".config1" to ".config" to arrange configuration archives.
This creates a copy of each file in the same directory
pwd # check where are you now # moving files mv file1.txt file3.txt
Moving multiple files can be possible. Selecting all the files ending in ".mp3" within Downloads
mv ~/Downloads/*.mp3 ~/Music/
Moving multiple files included within a text file. Files are included in "filesmv2.txt" and are moved to "tmpfiles" directory. "t" argument stands for "target directory"
Each line in the "txt" file looks like this: '/home/user/file1.pdf' # original
$ cat filesmv2.txt | xargs mv -t ~/tmpfiles
Source: stackexchange
Moving multiple files using wildcards. This moves all files containing the sequence "nasa" in the middle of the name. '*' indicates that there are characters or numbers before and after the word "nasa"
mv *roco* -t ./direct