how to use the renamesync function from fs-extra in javascript

To use the renamesync function from fs-extra module in JavaScript, you first need to install the module using npm. You can install it using the following command:

npm install fs-extra
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After that, you can use the renamesync function from fs-extra to rename a file or directory synchronously. The renamesync function takes two arguments: the path of the current file/directory, and the path of the new file/directory. Here is an example:

index.tsx
const fs = require('fs-extra');

try {
  fs.renameSync('/path/to/current/file', '/path/to/new/file');
  console.log('File renamed successfully');
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err);
}
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In the above example, we are renaming a file synchronously by passing the old file path (/path/to/current/file) and new file path (/path/to/new/file) as arguments to the renamesync function.

Note that if the new file already exists, it will be overwritten by the old file. Also, the renamesync function will throw an error if the old file/directory does not exist, if the new file/directory already exists and cannot be overwritten, or if the old and new paths are on different file systems. Therefore, it's always a good practice to use a try...catch block to handle any errors that may occur.

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