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Bash one liner to crop all file names in one directory to the length specified in the 'cut' command. (This is done the hard & dumb way here, I'm pretty sure rename can do it better with the proper regex. I can't regex very that well.)
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| for i in $files; do echo "mv $i $(echo $i | cut -c 1-8)"; done |
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