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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving and Deleting Files

I made a mistake in console foundations renamed a file hello and forgot the .txt and now i can't fix it?

I made a mistake in console foundations renamed a file hello and forgot the .txt and now i can't fix it. Now I'm not sure exactly what happened but if you have any suggestions please help

2 Answers

Do the following

mv filename filename.txt

That did not work thx for the suggestion Luke Pettway

Are you on a Mac by chance?

Oh okay well that helps a lot actually. If it is Windows then you should be able to do the same thing using the move command. I tested this on Windows 7.

move filename filename.txt