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E2MV

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

e2mv - moves or renames files on an ext2fs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

e2mv [ options ] files... dest

DESCRIPTION

The e2mv command moves or renames files on an ext2fs filesystem. The source files must be explicitly stated. It does not use regular expressions, yet.

OPTIONS

-f

Force the operation to remove any existing files.

-s

Swap names of the two files.

-v

Be verbose.

EXAMPLES

Rename a file:

e2cp -v /tmp/boot.img:/boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.old

If β€˜/boot/grub/grub.conf.oldβ€˜ already exists and is not a directory, this will fail. Use β€˜-fβ€˜ to force removal.

Move a file to a different directory (β€˜/data/processedβ€˜):

e2cp -v /dev/hdb1:/data/input0.txt /data/processed

To swap the names of two files:

e2cp -vs /tmp/boot.img:/boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.bk

To swap two files and use a new name for the first one:

e2cp -vs boot.img:/boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.c2 /boot/grub/grub.c1

β€˜/boot/grub/grub.confβ€˜ is now β€˜/boot/grub/grub.c1β€˜ and
β€˜/boot/grub/grub.c2β€˜ is now β€˜/boot/grub/grub.confβ€˜

SEE ALSO

e2tools (7), e2ln (1), e2ls (1), e2mkdir (1), e2cp (1), e2rm (1), e2tail (1).

AUTHOR

The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).