How do I move a file from a different directory to my current directory?

Question

For example, I'm in the directory main/projects/project_1/turned_in/ and I want to move markdown.md from main/work/ to my current directory.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

From the command line?
You can check you're already in main/projects/project_1/turned_in/ with pwd. If not,

cd main/projects/project_1/turned_in/ 

Then mv is the POSIX tool to moving a local file:

mv main/work/markdown.md ./

Notice how since we keep file's name, we only specify destination's dir. You can consult the manual page for more info by issuing man mv.

Answer 2

you can move your files easily from everywhere

mv path/to/origin path/to/destination
mv main/work/markdown.md main/projects/project_1/turned_in