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Remove last three characters from all filenames in a directory

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I have a directory with about 10 files and I want to remove the last three characters from the names of all of these files. Anyone know a terminal command that can do this?

And separately, how would I change the characters in the names of all these files to lowercase?

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answered 2 Years ago etzelmortg · Accepted Answer

Remove last three characters from all filenames in current directory:

rename 's/...$//' *

Change the characters in the names of all files from current directory to lowercase:

rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

For more info see man rename.