How to move a file from one directory to another directory in linux?

Question

I am using centos and trying to do an rsync of the entire /var directory, but exclude just the /var/www directory.

So far I've tried these approaches:

rsync -avzp --exclude-from=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/    
rsync -avzp --exclude=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/

But neither has worked. Can I get a suggestion on how to get this to happen?

Answer 1

$mv source_directory/file destination_directory/

Use relative or absolute path for source_directory and destination_directory.