1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)mv.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd May 31, 1993 39.Dt MV 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm mv 43.Nd move files 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl f | Fl i 47.Op Fl v 48.Ar source target 49.Nm 50.Op Fl f | Fl i 51.Op Fl v 52.Ar source ... directory 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54In its first form, the 55.Nm 56utility renames the file named by the 57.Ar source 58operand to the destination path named by the 59.Ar target 60operand. 61This form is assumed when the last operand does not name an already 62existing directory. 63.Pp 64In its second form, 65.Nm 66moves each file named by a 67.Ar source 68operand to a destination file in the existing directory named by the 69.Ar directory 70operand. 71The destination path for each operand is the pathname produced by the 72concatenation of the last operand, a slash, and the final pathname 73component of the named file. 74.Pp 75The following options are available: 76.Bl -tag -width flag 77.It Fl f 78Do not prompt for confirmation before overwriting the destination 79path. 80(The 81.Fl f 82option overrides any previous 83.Fl i 84options.) 85.It Fl i 86Cause 87.Nm 88to write a prompt to standard error before moving a file that would 89overwrite an existing file. 90If the response from the standard input begins with the character 91.Sq Li y 92or 93.Sq Li Y , 94the move is attempted. 95(The 96.Fl i 97option overrides any previous 98.Fl f 99options.) 100.It Fl v 101Cause 102.Nm 103to be verbose, showing files after they are moved. 104.El 105.Pp 106It is an error for either the 107.Ar source 108operand or the destination path to specify a directory unless both do. 109.Pp 110If the destination path does not have a mode which permits writing, 111.Nm 112prompts the user for confirmation as specified for the 113.Fl i 114option. 115.Pp 116As the 117.Xr rename 2 118call does not work across file systems, 119.Nm 120uses 121.Xr cp 1 122and 123.Xr rm 1 124to accomplish the move. 125The effect is equivalent to: 126.Bd -literal -offset indent 127rm -f destination_path && \e 128\tcp -pRP source_file destination && \e 129\trm -rf source_file 130.Ed 131.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 132The 133.Nm 134utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 135.Sh SEE ALSO 136.Xr cp 1 , 137.Xr rm 1 , 138.Xr symlink 7 139.Sh COMPATIBILITY 140The 141.Fl v 142option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended. 143.Sh STANDARDS 144The 145.Nm 146utility is expected to be 147.St -p1003.2 148compatible. 149.Sh HISTORY 150A 151.Nm 152command appeared in 153.At v1 . 154