I use KRename for renaming multiple files.

krenamer can do this. It just is a regex front end. You could do it with a shell script too.

You can take a look at “sonarr”, it’s made for managing your tv-shows and it can automatic rename and organize your files, with customizable naming schem.

how can you identify season from the file name?

Dolphin has that ability built in. If you use it, highlight all of the episodes and press f2. Pretty self explanatory from there.

This can be done natively in Thunar if you happen to use XFCE.

I use nomino for this purpose.

In zsh you can use zmv for this. Another command line solution is find but it’s a bit harder to figure out the correct command in my experience.

There must be a million utilities to do this (try searching “linux mass rename”), including ones that allow you to rename media files based on their metadata… each works in different ways, so you’ll have to look yourself for one that fits you (personally, I like the ones who open a text editor with the file names and you just edit them).

If you use KDE (DK about other environments) and only need a progressive counter, the simplest way is just select the files in dolphin, hit F2 and enter a pattern like “Tv Show Episode S01E##.mp4”.

(of course you can also write a script to rename the files, but I guess you wouldn’t have asked if you were prepared to do so)

Why not just do this with a for loop in the terminal? I don’t think you need to over complicate it by downloading another program.