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13. Moving and renaming files

Moving files to a different directory or renaming them is not difficult, but some of the ways in which this works may be non-obvious. (Moving or renaming a directory is even harder. See Moving directories).

The examples below assume that the file old is renamed to new.

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Outside
The normal way to Rename
Inside
A tricky, alternative way
Rename by copying
Another tricky, alternative way


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