Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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I don't know how mv works internally, but I think of it as carrying out 2 operations: first, copying the file to the new location, then deleting the original.
Another way to think of the mv command is that it renames a file. So, for example, you can leave a file in the same directory or move it to another, changing its name:
mv file.txt file_old.txt
mv file.txt Documents/file_old.txt
Something else about autocompletion is that if you type
cd E followed by tab, nothing may happen if there is more than one directory starting with E. Tap the Tab key a second time and you will see a display of the possible choices, AND afterward your
cd E comes back for you to finish the command.