How to rename a file inside a folder using a shell command?
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I have a file at some/long/path/to/file/myfiel.txt.
I want to rename it to some/long/path/to/file/myfile.txt.
Currently I do it by
mv some/long/path/to/file/myfiel.txt some/long/path/to/file/myfile.txt
, but typing the path twice isn't terribly effective (even with tab completion).
How can I do this faster? (I think I can write a function to change the filename segment only, but that's plan B).
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