How to delete last characters of multiple files in folders using PowerShell.

[JuanMena]

Just for the record because it took me some time to find this.
Open Powershell as Admin.
Type:

cd (route of folder)

*NOTE: The folder containing your files, must not have any kind of special characters! So rename your end folder to a complete word or a letter!

Copy paste:

gci *.ext | rename-item -newname { $_.basename.substring(0,$_.basename.length-#) + $_.extension }

*in .ext change to file extension. (.txt, .png, .mp3, .jpeg, etc.)
* in basename.lengt-# put number of characters to delete.

Here's an example!

I'm currently trying to delete the last 4 characters of all these files in this folder:

So, instead of having:
2-in-1 - Asterix & Obelix - Bash Them All! + XXL (E).png

I end up having:
2-in-1 - Asterix & Obelix - Bash Them All! + XXL.png

In my case, I'm using 4 characters to delete from the file's name, that's the space and the region code:
_(U)
_(E)
_(J)

Here's how the PowerShell script looks like:

And now I have:

That's all.
Again, just to have it somewhere in case I forget about this.

 

[tabzer]

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ is pretty useful.