How to Remove last X characters Multiple files at Once?

 If you trying to rename a lot of videos downloaded via youtube-dl from various sources and looking for a program or CLI command for removing the X last characters from the filename.

Example, the number would be 31 characters (excluding file extension, .mp4).

you can follow our CLI command below:

How to Remove last X characters Multiple files at Once?

1. Use Windows PowerShell

Go to your folder directory and hold shift + right click and Click Open PowerShell window here and then past command below.

get-childitem *.mp4 | rename-item -newname { $_.basename.substring(0,$_.basename.length-31) + $_.extension } 

 You can remove characters as you want by change "length-31" to any characters.

Example: If your file that you remove is 20 characters  then you can change to "length-20" 

2. Using bat file 

Open notepad and save below command to .bat file

powershell.exe -Command "get-childitem *.mp4 | rename-item -newname { $_.basename.substring(0,$_.basename.length-31) + $_.extension }"

Then you need to copy that file .bat to folder that you want to remove. 

Conclusion

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