is cffile action="rename" === fileMove in CFScript?

Question

Does fileMove() do exactly the same thing as <cffile action="rename">?

Answer 1

No they are different. There is no CFML Script function available to do a file Rename. So, the above use case is just a trick to achieve file rename.

You have to specify the same source and destination folder but change the file name in <destination>.

filemove("c:\userdata\files\myFile.docx", "c:\userdata\files\yourFile.docx");