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What is everybody this is Jason with there's soapstar com and in this video we are going to learn how



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to move files copy files and rename files.



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All right so let's dive in and get started.



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So we've been working in our terminal.



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We've got a few commands we've done in here so let's go ahead and clear this out.



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So again I'm just going to write.



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Clear and press ENTER give us more space to work with.



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All right so what we're going to learn first is how to move files.



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So in the Finder what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back a directory I'm going to go back one more



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and actually let's go ahead and stay in the directory fun that we've done here.



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So from the from the root level of our directory fun let's go ahead and create a folder so you can see



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here in the terminal that I'm in services.



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All right.



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So I need to go back to level and now I'm in the root level of this project that we're working in right



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listed all out.



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Everything looks good.



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So let's create a folder and I'm going to call this.



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So let's just make a directory and we'll call it just say that we want to store over javascript files



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in here.



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So I've just made this directory.



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And you can see over here in the Finder that it's appeared and says I'm building this project I want



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to organize a project a little bit better and I want to keep all my javascript files in this one directory



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so we can do that through the terminal by moving the file.



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And to do that we're going to type in the command and we move.



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All right.



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And then we need to grab the name of the file that we want to move.



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So we're going to type in main J.S. and then now we've got to give it a location of where we want it



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to go.



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If I was to go ahead and press enter here the terminals are going to throw me in there and it says hey



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dude you didn't give me a directory where you want me to move this.



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So please specify something for me.



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So let's do it again.



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Let's take an beam main door.



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Yes.



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And where we want to move this is into our genius folder.



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All right go ahead and press enter and you can see over here in the Finder that the file has disappeared



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it's gone.



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Where did it go.



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Well done.



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We moved it into the transcript file So pretty cool.



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There it is.



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All right.



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And then we can move files around anywhere we want.



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And what I want to show you now is how to move a file back to where it was and we can do this.



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This is a little bit tricky.



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Make sure that we're in the James file so we've got to change her directory so CD J us Leslie out.



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We can see our file in here and we're going to do.



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Nvm the main dot J S file and what we have to do is we need to go back a directory so remember how we



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use the CD command space dot dot.



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Well we're going to do the same thing the DOT DOT allows us to go back a level.



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So I'm going to hit dot dot for Slash.



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This is going to give me the path where I want to go and where we want to go is directory fun.



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So in the terminal Let's go ahead and type that out directory fun.



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So we're going to take this file and we're going to move it back.



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All right.



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It looks like we have something really goofy happen here.



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So we didn't even move our main Jap's file into our directory fun directory.



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What it actually did is it created a directory fun file without an extension.



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And the reason it did this is because you can actually use this same command M.V. to rename a file.



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So technically what I said here is I said hey in the javascript directory and take the main js file



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move it back a directory and rename it to directory fun.



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So that's what happened here.



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So let me show you how to actually properly do this so we're in our javascript our Jasc directory still.



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So let me come back to here.



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I'm going to create the file again.



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Yes.



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All right so now it's here.



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So let's try this again.



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We're going to do nvm main dot J Yes.



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And we're simply going to do that dot dot forward slash.



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We're just going to leave it at that because that way it puts it into the Directory fun here.



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So now when we come back over to our directory now you'll see the file is here.



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Now let me explain a little bit further why it created this file here in the JSM going to create another



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file we'll just call this awesome dot Jess.



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All right.



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What I was saying and this command is well what I was trying to say is move this file back into a directory



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which technically didn't exist.



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So a directory that does exist is this services in our directory bun.



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So what I could do with this is I could say move the awesome J us back a directory into the services



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directory.



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And if I hit enter you can see that the file isn't in here anymore.



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If we go into our services you can see that the awesome jazz file has now been moved.



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So pretty cool stuff here.



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So we've covered how to move a file.



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Let me show you how to copy a file.



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So let's find a file that we want to copy here.



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Let's say that this.



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Let's see we have here.



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Let's create another folder or another file.



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So let's go back a level where in our directory fun we're going to create a file called Master dodgiest



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and say this is a master template of some specific crazy function in our code project whatever.



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Right.



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So what we want to do is say we want to use this template in other parts of our project.



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OK like another component per se.



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And we're going to move it over into our services so or copy it into our services because we want it



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to also stay in this root level directory fun.



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So we're going to use the command C.P. to copying.



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And then we're going to grab the name of the file master dot J.S. and then we're going to specify the



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directory we wanted to go into which will just in this example call it services and we're going to hit



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enter.



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Now if we come into our services you will see that we have the master js file and this is this is cool



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because when you're working with different frameworks like angular to for example you're working with



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a lot of components you might have a typescript file that might be some master like template for a component



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per se and you could go ahead and use this copy command to copy the entire file into that component



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to set up like us a skeleton for you.



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All right.



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So pretty easy stuff.



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Now the last thing that I want to cover is how to rename a file.



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Let's see say this awesome J.S. file here.



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Very poorly named it doesn't really specify anything that we're trying to do.



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So let's go ahead and change the name of that.



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So paying attention in our terminal we're in the directory fun.



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So we need to get into our services.



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So we're going to change the directory here and to rename a file We're going to use the same.



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And the command that we use for move.



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And then we're going to say we want to take the file awesome J.S. and let's rename it to cats just because



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that makes way more sense.



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All right.



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And you can see the file has change right before our eyes.



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So very powerful stuff.



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Again this is stuff that you're going to be using all the time.



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You've got to know how to move files around copy things around and also rename things in case you need



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a better naming convention for some of the files you're working with.



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So that is a wrap for this video.



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Let's move on.