Question

Many files in a directory (/root/path/) have a strange character string appended to them (\#015). Help me replace them with regular names without the strange string.

I need:

/root/path/img1.png\#015
/root/path/img2.jpg
/root/path/img3.png\#015

To be:

/root/path/img1.png
/root/path/img2.jpg
/root/path/img3.png

Can you help?

Answer 1

for file in *\#015
do
   mv -- "$file" "${file%\#015}"
done

You may need to escape the “\”s. Try it in a tmp directory first.