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I've been really trying to "learn" linux recently but am having trouble renaming multiple files in a folder.
Specifically, I need to rename mp3 files from "tracknumber - trackname.mp3" to "trackname.mp3."
I've been reading about how to do this in general but have had difficulty with it as I do not know what I am doing. More specifically, I don't undertand the syntax.
well as you've done there you either put them in quotes, or escape each space with a \ e.g. a\ file\ with\ spaces.txt there is no other syntax to wory about just to delete a normal file.
more specifically, if I need to change the names of all of the files in a directory from "tracknumber - trackname.mp3" to "trackname.mp3", what will the variable x need to look like and where would I go from there?
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