A special use of the MOVE command is moving directories within a file system: MOVE directory pathname willmovethenameddirectorytosomewhereelseinthefilesystem ofadisk device. This cannot be done if the source and destination pathnames do not refer to the same physical disk device. When a file or directory is MOVEd to another place on the same disk no actual copying of data takes place: it is all done by shuffling of directory entries. This is why a move can delete sources when files or directories are involved, but not when character devices are involved. Displaying files TYPE pathname1 [pathname2] .... TYPE device: [pathname1] ....
The TYPE command causes the contents of one or more files or character devices to be displayed on standard output (normally the video monitor). If verbose mode is set (see the option 1 1 command) headers are printed out before each source is output. Any mix of files and character devices may be specified. If a character device is specified, then TYPE proceeds until an end-of-file character (normally control-D) is encountered. This is essentially a more limited version of cat , included for MS-DOS compatibility. Deleting files DELETE pathname1 [pathname2] [pathname3] .... All of the named files and directories are deleted, making the disk space which they previously used available for reuse.
Wildcards are useful (but dangerous) with this command. Directories may be deleted in this manner. A directory can only be deleted if it is empty (contains no files or sub-directories) and is not in the path of your current directory. Renaming files RENAME pathname filename The RENAME command changes the name of the file or directory identified by ‘pathname’ to ‘filename’. All other file attributes are preserved. RENAME cannot move a file from a particular directory, so the command RENAME /rd/mydir/myfile newname will rename the file to /RD/MYDIR/NEWNAME, regardless of the current directory. Essentially a more limited, safer version of move . 1616/OS Commands User Tutorial Manual Page 67