Moves files and renames files and directories.

To move one or more files:

MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]file name1[,...] destination

To rename a directory:

MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]dirname1 dirname2

The switch /Y may be present in the COPYCMD environment variable. This switch may be overridden with /-Y on the command line. The default protocol is to prompt on overwrites unless MOVE command is being executed from within a batch script.

move c:\windows\temp\*.* c:\temp

Move the files of c:\windows\temp to the temp directory in root, this is of course assuming you have the Windows\temp directory. In this example, *.* is wildcards telling the computer every file with every extension.

move "computer hope" example

If your directory name or file name has a space, it must be surrounded with quotes, otherwise you get a "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error message. The command above would move the "computer hope" directory into the example directory contained in the same directory (current directory).

move c:\example.txt h:

The above commands moves the file example.txt into the h: drive. In this example, the h: drive is a USB flash drive. The drive letter can vary depending on the other drives connected to the computer.