MOVE

Moves files or directories between directories, or renames them. See also REN.

Examples:

move File1.txt File2.txt
Renames File1.txt to File2.txt, overwriting File2.txt if confirmed by the user or if run from a batch script.
move File.txt Dir
Moves File.txt file into Dir directory, assuming File.txt is a file and Dir is a directory; overwrites target file Dir\File.txt if conditions for overwriting are met.
move Dir1 Dir2
Renames directory Dir1 to Dir2, assuming Dir1 is a directory and Dir2 does not exist.
move Dir1 Dir2
Moves directory Dir1 into Dir2, resulting in existence of Dir2\Dir1, assuming both Dir1 and Dir2 are existing directories.
move F:\File.txt
Moves the file to the current directory.
move F:\*.txt
Moves the files located at F:\ and ending in .txt into the current directory, assuming the current directory is not F:\.

Links:

$ move /?
Moves files and renames files and directories.

To move one or more files:
MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]filename1[,...] destination

To rename a directory:
MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]dirname1 dirname2

  [drive:][path]filename1 Specifies the location and name of the file
                          or files you want to move.
  destination             Specifies the new location of the file. Destination
                          can consist of a drive letter and colon, a
                          directory name, or a combination. If you are moving
                          only one file, you can also include a filename if
                          you want to rename the file when you move it.
  [drive:][path]dirname1  Specifies the directory you want to rename.
  dirname2                Specifies the new name of the directory.

  /Y                      Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to
                          overwrite an existing destination file.
  /-Y                     Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite
                          an existing destination file.

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

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