On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:19:09 +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote:
> And if you like Bash brace expansions; this one is sometimes quicker,
> than tab-completion and removing characters:
>
> $ mv file.txt{,.bak}
> file.txt.bak
> $ mv file.txt,{bak,img}
> file.txt.img
> $ mv file.txt{img,}
> file.txt$ mv -b oldname newname If newname exists, it is renamed with a ~ extension. > > -Ramon > > On 06/10/2022 14:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> This is probably a case of Dolphin not being a good tool, unless it > >> has a built-in command-line? > >> $ mv newfile oldfile > >> will overwrite the old file in place with the new file with the name > >> of the old file. > > And tab-completion makes this a lot quicker than renaming files in a > > file manager. > > > -- Neil Bothwick I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...
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