How Do I Remove a File Extension in Linux?

How Do I Remove a File Extension in Linux?
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How do I remove a file extension from a file?

Windows users

  1. Right-click the file (not the shortcut).
  2. Select Rename in the menu.
  3. Erase the . txt from myfile. txt and press Enter .
  4. Click Yes on the warning about the file becoming unusable if you’re sure you want to delete the file name extension.

30 июн. 2020 г.

How do I remove a file extension in Unix?

To simply remove the extension you can explicitly pass in an empty string as an argument. With the above command all files with . gz. tmp extension in the current folder will be renamed to filename.

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