mv (move and rename) in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to move the file named file1.txt to the directory backup/.

Linux CLI

mv file1.txt [1]

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Afile1.txt

Bfile2.txt

C/home/user

Dbackup/

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the same filename as destination does not move the file.

Specifying a filename instead of a directory when intending to move into a folder.

The mv command moves the file file1.txt into the directory backup/.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to rename the file report.txt to summary.txt in the current directory.

Linux CLI

mv [1] summary.txt

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Areport.txt

Bsummary

Creport

Dsummary.txt

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping the source and destination names.

Omitting the file extension.

To rename a file, use mv with the current filename as the first argument and the new filename as the second.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to move data.csv into the directory /archive.

Linux CLI

mv data.csv [1]archive

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A~

B/

C-

D.

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Missing slash causes the command to look for a file named 'data.csvarchive'.

Using tilde ~ incorrectly when not referring to home directory.

To specify an absolute directory path, use a leading slash /. Here, /archive is the archive directory in the root, and the slash properly separates the source filename from the destination path.

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hard

Fill both blanks to move notes.txt to the directory docs and rename it to meeting.txt.

Linux CLI

mv notes.txt [1]/[2]

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Adocs

Bnotes.txt

Cmeeting.txt

Dbackup

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the old filename instead of the new one.

Using a wrong directory name.

The command moves notes.txt into the docs directory and renames it to meeting.txt by specifying the new path and filename.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to rename all files with extension .txt in the current directory by moving them to texts folder and changing their extension to .bak using a loop.

Linux CLI

for file in *.txt; do mv [1] [2]/$[3].bak; done

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Afile

Btexts

Cfile%.txt

Dfiles

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong variable names.

Not removing the .txt extension before adding .bak.

Using incorrect directory name.

The loop moves each .txt file to the texts directory and renames it by removing the .txt extension and adding .bak instead.