i want to rename multiple files in my linux system directory....
my file names are as:
Lec 1 - xxx.webm
Lec 2 - xxx.webm
Lec 3 - xxx.webm
Lec 4 - xxx.webm
and the list goes on...
here xxx could be any list of characters(not consistent)....
i would like to rename every file in here like:
mv Lec 1 - xxx.webm Lec 1.webm
mv Lec 2 - xxx.webm Lec 2.webm
mv Lec 3 - xxx.webm Lec 3.webm
and so on....
for in loop could do but how to do the substitution?
*strip all characters after the number should be my renamed file
This for loop should do the job:
for f in *.webm; do
mv "$f" "${f/ -*/}.webm"
done