How to quickly rename my files on macOS or linux from CLI?

Here’re my source files.

e2f9eb91-645f-408a-9241-66490b61a617_file-module-1.txt
d20f06a8-4de1-4da0-8175-93e9b2d81c42_file-module-2.txt
6740a19f-e1a0-43da-9a01-9e873238360e_file-module-3.txt
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e2f9eb91-645f-408a-9241-66490b61a617_file-module-1.txtd20f06a8-4de1-4da0-8175-93e9b2d81c42_file-module-2.txt6740a19f-e1a0-43da-9a01-9e873238360e_file-module-3.txt...​

I need to figure it out a way to rename all the files to remove the first 36 characters up to _file or replacing as something else. I am expecting all the files are as below.

_file-module-1.txt or Yong_file-module-1.txt
_file-module-2.txt or Yong_file-module-2.txt
_file-module-3.txt or Yong_file-module-3.txt
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_file-module-1.txt or Yong_file-module-1.txt_file-module-2.txt or Yong_file-module-2.txt_file-module-3.txt or Yong_file-module-3.txt...​

Thanks in advance!

Answer

You can use rename like this:

rename --dry-run 's/.*_file/Yong_file/' *.txt

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rename --dry-run 's/.*_file/Yong_file/' *.txt​

If you are on macOS, you can install rename with homebrew:

brew install rename

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brew install rename​

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