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The mv command moves files or directories from one place to another.

Structure:

mv [options] file1 file2
mv [options] files directory

If you wanted to move the file gorilla.html into the directory called apes, here's what you would do:

 mv gorilla.html /webmonkey/apes/

mv can also be used to rename files. Let's say you want to rename gorilla.html to orangatan.html, here's what it would look like:

mv gorilla.html orangatan.html

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