To rename a directory in a Linux or Unix-based system you can make use of quite a few commands, one of them is an mv command. Let's see some examples,
Syntax: mv fromDirName toNewDirName
% mkdir myDir
% cd myDir
% touch myFile.txt
% cd ..
% mv myDir myDir1
% ls
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