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Remove text in file name after particular search pattern

I have a file name such as follows:

file_name1.pdf.sometext.here

I have a directory of several files in the same format, and I want to edit all the files so that the portion after .pdf is deleted... thus the file would look like this

file_name1.pdf
Solution

  • Using parameter expansion:

    $ ls *.pdf*
file_name1.pdf.sometext.here  file_name2.pdf.blah  file_name3.pdf.sometext
$ for fname in *.pdf*; do mv "$fname" "${fname//.pdf.*/.pdf}"; done
$ ls *.pdf*
file_name1.pdf  file_name2.pdf  file_name3.pdf