Yesterday, I recognized that mmv is more powerful than I thought it to be. Perhaps my comment to another article that discusses mmv (and rename) may help you.

It’s about versatility related to the from patterns: https://forum.linuxconfig.org/t/how-to-rename-multiple-files-on-linux-linuxconfig-org/5732/4

I agree that bash loop is suboptimal (positively formulated)

Using mmv multiple time in Bash loop is average.

@upltu,

Thank you for pointing that out! You’re absolutely right – mmv isn’t available in the official Arch Linux repositories but can be installed from the AUR.

I appreciate you sharing the link to the AUR package for others who might want to install it on Arch-based systems. I’ll make sure to update the article to include this detail.

Thanks again for your valuable input!