How do I remove a specific extension from files recursively using a bash script

Question

I'm trying to find a bash script that will recursively look for files with a .bx extension, and remove this extension. The filenames are in no particular format (some are hidden files with "." prefix, some have spaces in the name, etc.), and not all files have this extension.

I'm not sure how to find each file with the .bx extension (in and below my cwd) and remove it. Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

find . -name '*.bx' -type f | while read NAME ; do mv "${NAME}" "${NAME%.bx}" ; done

Answer 2

find -name "*.bx" -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/\.bx//'

Answer 3

Bash 4+

shopt -s globstar
shopt -s nullglob
shopt -s dotglob

for file in **/*.bx
do
  mv "$file" "${file%.bx}"
done

Answer 4

Assuming you are in the folder from where you want to do this

find . -name "*.bx" -print0 | xargs -0 rename .bx ""