{"id":23228,"date":"2024-03-16T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-rename-files-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T00:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:45:56","slug":"how-to-rename-files-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-rename-files-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to rename files in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Linux, you can use the mv command to rename files.<\/p>\n<p>The command format is: mv [options] source file destination file<\/p>\n<p>For example, to rename the file old.txt to new.txt, you can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>mv old.txt new.txt\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If the new file name is in the same directory as the existing file, you can simply use the new file name. 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