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

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http://askubuntu.com – 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?. (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 10/31/2012 – Made popular on 10/31/2012

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I several HTML files that contain a tag for a name that I want to use for the actual file name.

I'm looking to bulk rename files in the current directory only and remove certain strings from the end of file names.

Sample:

foo-bar-(ab-4529111094).txt foo-bar-foo-bar-(ab-189534).txt foo-bar-foo-bar-bar-(ab-24937932201).txt

the output should look like this:

foo-bar.txt foo-bar-foo-bar.txt foo-bar-foo-bar-bar.txt

I want to remove the string -(ab-2492201) at the end of each file name know

I have a malware on my server. So I've figured out how to find all that malicious files

grep -r --include*.php "Some String from files" .

That seems work fine!

but how to delete them? I've tried using xargs

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[Solved] remove file extension 38 weeks 20 hours ago

Hi,

I have some files with some extension e.g. abc.xml.REMOVE,xyz.xml,efg.xml.REMOVE .

I have to remove the .REMOVE extension. I can display it using the below script but cannot rename it.

Code: ls -l|sed 's/\.REMOVE//' How can I rename this?

Thanks in advance

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hi experts, anyone knows how can i find a string in a multiple binary files in a multiple directories and display the file name containing the string?

i mean i have lots of folders with binary files and i am looking for specific string within one of these files i would like to know the right syntax to use for this kind of search, i know i should run strings or something similar.

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Hi,

I have used this Code: find .

I am using Lubuntu 11.10. When I call the context menu (right click) many programs appear to open some file.

For example, for .tex files, besides TeXstudio and Leafpad, Gnumeric (what a strange option!) and text editor also appear.

So, I'd like to remove those bad options.