equivalent of rm and mv in windows cmd

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I have the following in a shell script I want to convert the following lines into a windows cmd file  can anyone provide inputs on what is the equivalent for  rm  and  mv  in windows cmd file   rm -f   BUILD ID    BUILD ASIC  rampatch  mv   BUILD ID    BUILD ASIC  rampatch    BUILD ID  emul

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move and del ARE certainly the equivalents  but from a functionality standpoint they are woefully NOT equivalent   For example  you can t move both files AND folders  in a wildcard scenario  with the move command   And the same thing applies with del   The preferred solution in my view is to use Win32 ports of the Linux tools  the best collection of which I have found being here   mv and rm are in the CoreUtils package and they work wonderfully

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If you want to see a more detailed discussion of differences for the commands  see the Details about Differences section  below  From the LeMoDa net website1  archived   specifically the Windows and Unix command line equivalents page  archived   I found the following2  There s a better more complete table in the next edit  Windows command     Unix command rmdir               rmdir rmdir  s            rm -r move                mv  I m interested to hear from  Dave and  javadba to hear how equivalent the commands are - how the  quot behavior and capabilities quot  compare  whether quite similar or  quot woefully NOT equivalent quot   All I found out was that when I used it to try and recursively remove a directory and its constituent files and subdirectories  e g   Windows cmd  gt rmdir  s C  my dirwithsubdirs   gave me a standard Windows-knows-better-than-you-do-are-you-sure message and prompt dirwithsubdirs  Are you sure  Y N    and that when I typed Y  the result was that my top directory and its constituent files and subdirectories went away   Edit I m looking back at this after finding this answer  I retried each of the commands  and I d change the table a little bit  Windows command     Unix command rmdir               rmdir rmdir  s  q         rm -r rmdir  s  q         rm -rf rmdir  s            rm -ri move                mv del  lt file gt           rm  lt file gt   If you want the equivalent for rm -rf you can use rmdir  s  q or  as the author of the answer I sourced described   But there is another  quot old school quot  way to do it that was used back in the day when commands did not have options to suppress confirmation messages  Simply ECHO the needed response and pipe the value into the command   echo y   rmdir  s  Details about Differences I tested each of the commands using Windows CMD and Cygwin  with its bash   Before each test  I made the following setup  Windows CMD  gt mkdir this directory  gt echo some text stuff  gt  this directory some txt  gt mkdir this empty directory  Cygwin bash   mkdir this directory   echo  quot some text stuff quot   gt  this directory some txt   mkdir this empty directory  That resulted in the following file structure for both  base  -- this directory      -- some txt  -- this empty directory  Here are the results  Note that I ll not mark each as CMD or bash  the CMD will have a  gt  in front  and the bash will have a    in front  RMDIR  gt rmdir this directory The directory is not empty    gt tree  a  f   Folder PATH listing for volume Windows Volume serial number is                                    base  ---this directory         some txt    ---this empty directory   gt  rmdir this empty directory   gt tree  a  f   base  ---this directory         some txt    rmdir this directory rmdir  failed to remove  this directory   Directory not empty    tree --charset ascii base  -- this directory      -- some txt  -- this empty directory  2 directories  1 file    rmdir this empty directory    tree --charset ascii base  -- this directory      -- some txt  RMDIR  S  Q   and   RM -R   RM -RF  gt rmdir  s  q this directory   gt tree  a  f base  ---this empty directory   gt rmdir  s  q this empty directory   gt tree  a  f base No subfolders exist    rm -r this directory    tree --charset ascii base  -- this empty directory    rm -r this empty directory    tree --charset ascii base 0 directories  0 files    rm -rf this directory    tree --charset ascii base  -- this empty directory    rm -rf this empty directory    tree --charset ascii base 0 directories  0 files  RMDIR  S   AND   RM -RI Here  we have a bit of a difference  but they re pretty close   gt rmdir  s this directory this directory  Are you sure  Y N   y   gt tree  a  f base  ---this empty directory   gt rmdir  s this empty directory this empty directory  Are you sure  Y N   y   gt tree  a  f base No subfolders exist    rm -ri this directory rm  descend into directory  this directory   y rm  remove regular file  this directory some txt   y rm  remove directory  this directory   y    tree --charset ascii base  -- this empty directory    rm -ri this empty directory rm  remove directory  this empty directory   y    tree --charset ascii base 0 directories  0 files  I M HOPING TO GET A MORE THOROUGH MOVE AND MV TEST  Notes  I know almost nothing about the LeMoDa website  other than the fact that the info is   Copyright    Ben Bullock 2009-2018  All rights reserved    archived copyright notice  and that there seem to be a bunch of useful programming tips along with some humour  yes  the British spelling  and information on how to fix Japanese toilets  I also found some stuff talking about the  quot Ibaraki Report quot   but I don t know if that is the website  I think I shall go there more often  it s quite useful  Props to Ben Bullock  whose email is on his page  If he wants me to remove this info  I will  I will include the disclaimer  archived  from the site   Disclaimer Please read the following 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move in windows is equivalent of mv command in Linux  del in windows is equivalent of rm command in Linux

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