in unix how to change old name to new name

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / anil.gaurav

mv Command:

Use this command to change the name of file and
directories.

% mv foo foobar

The file that was named foo is now named foobar

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / v.balaviswanathan

$ mv name1.txt name2.txt

Where name1 is the old name

name2 is the new name

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / saeed

mv oldfliename newfilename

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / k.v.ramayya

one file and directory is moove one place to another places
and drectories in any places

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / ravi prakash

for renaming in red hat linux

command is

for example we have to rename folder Hello to Hi

then command is

$ rename Hello hi Hello

so by this Hello rename to hi..

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / jaswant

#mv oldname newname

or
#ren oldname newname

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in unix how to change old name to new name..

Answer / redhadon

I think we should use the following command

#ren <oldname path> <newnamepath>

eg

#ren Desktop/file1 file2

{ here we change the old name FILE1 to new name FILE2

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