<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div dir="ltr">On 17 October 2014 09:22, Paul Rankin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hello@paulwrankin.com" target="_blank">hello@paulwrankin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Richard Seguin <<a href="mailto:riseguin@earthlink.net">riseguin@earthlink.net</a>><br>
writes:<br>
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> What exactly do these two Unix commands do? I'm guessing the "mv" might<br>
> mean move, but it's not clear where things are moved to.<br>
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> mv /usr/local/texlive ~<br>
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> mv ~/texlive /usr/local<br>
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</span>You are correct, this is the "move" or rename command. It takes the<br>
format: `mv [source] [target]`</blockquote><div><br></div><div>To expand on this a little, in the Terminal, ~ refers to your home directory, so these commands move the texlive folder to your home directory and then move it back again afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>John Coxon </div></div><br></div></div>