Sometimes, you may want to move a file (or a directory) to a different location instead of copying and wasting disk space.
To do this, you can use the mv command. For example, you can move the file copycats.txt from Elliot's home directory to /tmp by running the mv copycats.txt /tmp command:
elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ mv copycats.txt /tmp
elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ ls
apple.txt carrot.txt cities d2 Desktop Downloads
banana.txt cats.txt d1 d3 dir1 Pictures
elliot@ubuntu-linux:~$ cd /tmp
elliot@ubuntu-linux:/tmp$ ls
apple.txt carrot.txt cats.txt copycats.txt d2
banana.txt cats2.txt cities d1 d3
Notice that copycats.txt is now gone from Elliot's home directory as it relocated to /tmp.
