I have a bunch of .txt files in a directory, and I want to be able to find these files and strip the extension from the file name.

I can find the files using:

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.txt"

./0test.txt

./1test.txt

./2test.txt

./3test.txt

./4test.txt

./5test.txt

./6test.txt

./7test.txt

./8test.txt

./9test.txt

I then tried to use sed command to remove the ".txt" extension, like:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.txt" | sed "s/.txt$//"

But I just get the file names listed without their extensions, and the actual file names remain unchanged.

So how do you actually change the file names themselves?