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How can I remove a string of text from a files name?

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Following this question I exported various SVGs to PNGs, but there is a little problem, all files include in their name the extensions .svg and .png as in file.svg.png.

Now what I'd like to know is how can I remove the .svg string from the name of the file without going trough each file and do right-click>rename?.

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answered 2 Years ago ellter · Accepted Answer

pyrenamer is a pretty handy tool for batch renaming files. Otherwise, you could always fire up the terminal.

for file in *; do mv "${file}" "${file//.svg/}"; done

That should do the trick if you're in the same directory as the pictures. Use at own risk.