Renaming Directories

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net>:

> Simple question here.  Say I want to rename /mnt/store to
> /mnt/store.old.  I could of course do this with cp, however, I don't
> have enough disk space.  So is there a way that just does a rename of
> the directory?

Yes, 'mv'

> # mv /mnt/store mnt/store.old would create a new directory full of
> files, wouldn't it?

Nope, mv is just a wrapper around "rename(1)".

> -Bruce

-derek

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