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Now what if I wanted to move files.

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The difference between copy and move is that the copy command would leave the file and it's our original

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source.

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So if I had a file and the temp directory and I copied it to documents I would have two copies of it

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one and the temp directory and one under documents.

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However we'll remove the file from temp and move it entirely to documents all have only one copy of

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it.

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As a side note and this is important to know more is also used as renaming function and Linux.

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So in Microsoft Windows for example you can right click on a file and click on rename to change the

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name of the file.

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In Linux there is no the name commands.

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We use the move command to rename files and folders.

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So let's see how this works.

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I'm going to create a file on the temp directory called to move and I'll do that using the command touch

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space last time slash to move.

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Let me list the contents of the temp directory.

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And I can see that two more fight is over there.

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Let's say now I want to move it to the Documents folder or the documents directory.

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I can do that by typing M.V. for move slash Demps left to move to documents.

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Look at the right hand side.

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And there we go.

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It moved there.

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Now if I display the content of the temp directory I can notice that two more file is no longer there.

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By the way if I want to read this play the previous commands I can use the up arrow and type at a number

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of times to keep going back and commands or in my command history.

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So I'm going to do that to recreate the file under the term directory.

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So now I've recreated the to move file again I display the content of the temp directory and the file

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is recreated like in copy.

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If I use the move command and the file already exists and the destination directory it will automatically

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be overwritten.

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So again if I move it from time to documents you notice that it got all the return and the original

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file disappeared.

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Let me created a third time.

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And now when I want to move it I'm going to use like and copy the minus i option which sounds for interactive.

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Now let's see what happens.

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It will ask me Do you want to write.

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I'm going to say no.

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Let's quickly revisit the copy command and see how we can use it easily with the DOT and the DOT DOT

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notations that we saw previously.

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I'm going to go back to my documents folder and in my temp folder I have the X Files which I want to

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copy to the documents folder.

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I can do that in many ways.

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The first way I'm going to be using it is C-p temp Ex-Files and the destination is taled which stands

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for my home directory slash documents and notice that the file has been copied.

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I'm going to delete it very quickly.

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And now that I am in the documents directory I'm going to do the neat trick of using the dot which stands

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for current working directory.

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So now if I type C-p slash dump slash Ex-Files space Daut I'm telling Linux that I want to copy the

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X Files into whatever I am right now and it happens that I am in documents and as we can see the X Files

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as a copy to documents.

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Let's say instead of copying it to documents I want to copy it to the root directory.

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And the way to do this is by typing see these less steps less as far as space.

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Dot dot dot dot dot again stands for up one directory.

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So in this case I'm copying the X-Files file to the root directory.

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If I go up one directory using my graphical interface or see that the X-Files has been copied up one

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directory which happens to be that directory.