File.Move

Description

• Moves a file or files to another location, effectively renaming it to the new path.

Syntax

• File.Move(source, destination)

Parameters

source

(string) full path to the file to be moved

Use wildcards to move groups of files.

destination

(string) path to the new file location

If destination does not included a file name, source file name is used.

Examples

• File.Move(?"c:\mypath\in.txt", ?"c:\output\out.txt")
  • Moves "c:\mypath\in.txt" to "c:\output\out.txt".
• File.Move(?"c:\docs\*.txt", ?"c:\backup\")
  • Use the "*" wildcard to that specify all text files in "c:\docs" are to be moved to "c:\backup".
• File.Move(?"c:\mydocs\file?.txt", ?"c:\logs")
  • Uses the "?" wildcard to specify that all text files with a file name "file" plus one character & extension .txt should be moved to folder "c:\logs".

Notes

• This function is the same as File.Rename().