Oberschutze said:

#!/bin/bash

for filename in $(ls | grep -E "(^|_)[[:digit:]]{13}\.[[:alpha:]]{3,4}$")
do
	filehash=$(md5sum "$filename" | sed -E "s/ \*.*$//")

is more succinct than this sed incantation.

newfilename=$(echo $filename | sed -E "s/[[:digit:]]{13}/$filehash/")

What's the meaning of the leading _ which you are (possibly) preserving here?

if mv -n $filename $newfilename
	then
		echo "$filename -> $newfilename"
	fi
done

Could alternatively write this as:

mv -nv $filename $newfilename
done | sed 's/^renamed //'

if it's what I think (you just want a shorter version of the report that mv gives).

savageorange said:
cut -d \ -f1 is more succinct than this sed incantation.

And filehash=$(md5sum /tmp/autocheck.json); filehash=${filehash%% *} is more succinct than that, if you don't mind the two stage processing.

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