How do I Remove Specific Characters From File Names Using BASH

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I have a lot of files that have a shared pattern in their name that I would like to remove. For example I have the files, "a_file000.tga" and "another_file000.tga". I would like to do an operation on those files that would remove the pattern "000" from their names resulting in the new names, "a_file.tga" and "another_file.tga".

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Use rename, maybe you need to install it on linux, Its python script

rename (option) 's/oldname/newname' ...

so you can use it like

rename -v 's/000//' *.tga

that means we are instructing to replace all files with .tga extension in that folder to replace 000 with empty space. Hope that works

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