As you can see, using the -v (verbose) option with mv means the command will explain what it has done. This output can confirm or refute that mv commands are doing what you intended.

There's more to copying and renaming files on Linux than cp and mv. Try some commands and strategies that might surprise you and save you some time.

You can use basic terminal commands to perform basic file operations, such as locating the current path with pwd, listing files and directories with ls, and copying/moving with cp and mv.

Move directories around The move command (mv) works similar to the copy command (cp), the only difference being deletion of the source directory.