Various helpful Linux commands for file manipulations

Change file name for all files that contains “[any text]” substring to the same name without that.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} bash -c 'old_name="{}"; \
new_name=$(echo "$old_name" | sed -E "s/\[.*?\]//g"); \
echo "New name \"$new_name\""; \
mv "$old_name" "$new_name"'

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