bulk renaming from commandline on linux

Using the rename tool,

https://www.tecmint.com/rename-multiple-files-in-linux/

An example is

rename 's/\.html$/\.php/' *.html

From

https://www.gossland.com/perlcourse/matching/substitution

we see that a normal string substitution would be like

s/dog/cat/

rename -n 's/SV_2019_08_10_PM_SOME_LONG_NAME/SV_2019_08_10_SHORTNAME/' SV*mp3

shows what it will do, and -v will actually do it and also display the result.

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