--- title: 31 Linux Commands Every Ubuntu User Should Know | daily.dev description: The mv command moves the files and folders to the other location. You can think of it as a cut-paste operation. There is no undo option after you delete files... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/31-linux-commands-every-ubuntu-user-should-know-ran49q0lq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 31 Linux Commands Every Ubuntu User Should Know | daily.dev og:description: The mv command moves the files and folders to the other location. You can think of it as a cut-paste operation. There is no undo option after you delete files... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/31-linux-commands-every-ubuntu-user-should-know-ran49q0lq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rAN49Q0lq.png og:image:alt: 31 Linux Commands Every Ubuntu User Should Know og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 31 Linux Commands Every Ubuntu User Should Know **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · [@abhishek_foss](https://daily.dev/abhishek_foss) · 16 min read · 54 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary The mv command moves the files and folders to the other location. You can think of it as a cut-paste operation. There is no undo option after you delete files in the command line. If you are afraid of deleting the wrong file, use the interactive mode with option -i, which gives you an additional prompt to confirm the action. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@alejandro** · 2 upvotes > Nice article! It'd be great you added curl, wget, tar and dpkg. 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