The Move
factory
allows you to rename a file or directory.
For example, if we don't want to copy the temporary file,
we could use:
Command( "file.out", "file.in", action=[ Copy("tempfile", "$SOURCE"), "modify tempfile", Move("$TARGET", "tempfile"), ], )
Which would execute as:
% scons -Q
Copy("tempfile", "file.in")
modify tempfile
Move("file.out", "tempfile")