<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>moveFile(String,String)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_remove__File.html">next</a> | <a href="_copy__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_remove__File.html">forward</a> | <a href="_copy__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">backward</a> | <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html" title="Unix file manipulation functions">file manipulation</a> > <a href="_move__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html" title="">moveFile(String,String)</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>moveFile(String,String)</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>moveFile(src,dst)</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_move__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html" title="">moveFile</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>src</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, the filename or path to an existing file</span></li> <li><span><tt>dst</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, the new filename or path to a location (on the same file system). Omit this argument and an appropriately numbered backup filename will be invented.</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Consequences:<ul><li>the file will be moved by creating a new link to the file and removing the old one</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span>the name of the backup file if one was created, or <a href="_null.html" title="the unique member of the empty class">null</a></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single"><a href="_using_spfunctions_spwith_spoptional_spinputs.html">Optional inputs</a>:<ul><li><span><tt>Verbose => </tt><span><span>a <a href="___Boolean.html">Boolean value</a></span>, <span>default value false</span>, whether to report individual file operations</span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : src = temporaryFileName() o1 = /tmp/M2-26248-1</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : dst = temporaryFileName() o2 = /tmp/M2-26248-2</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : src << "hi there" << close o3 = /tmp/M2-26248-1 o3 : File</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : moveFile(src,dst,Verbose=>true) --moving: /tmp/M2-26248-1 -> /tmp/M2-26248-2</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i5 : get dst o5 = hi there</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i6 : bak = moveFile(dst,Verbose=>true) --backup file created: /tmp/M2-26248-2.bak o6 = /tmp/M2-26248-2.bak</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i7 : removeFile bak</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_copy__File_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html" title="">copyFile</a></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>