How do I Remove Specific Characters From File Names Using BASH

Question

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

Answer 1

A non-bash solution, since I know two speedy posters have already covered that:

There's an excellent short perl program called rename which is installed by default on some systems (others have a less useful rename program). It lets you use perl regex for your renaming, e.g:

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