Yes, the mapping means it'll add "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as query, thus getting back a perfect match from the database. Without that mapping "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" wouldn't even be an option.

* Thanks to the mapping GUI users will get "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ...

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We have 3 options:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU

1. Law and Order SVU => no show of that name
2. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit VS Law and Order => Law and Order WINS because it's more similar (because only 1 "word" is doesn't match)

The file just doesn ...

Not it doesn't:
Fetching episode data for [Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]
Fetching episode data for [Law and Order (1978)]
Fetching episode data for [Law and Disorder]
Fetching episode data for [Law & Order]
Could be any one of those. It only knows it's one of those four and filebot picks the ...

I had a couple of questions regarding the CLI

Using non-strict matching, I get this:

"C:\Program Files\FileBot\filebot.exe" -rename "law.and.order.svu.s11e02.dvdrip.xvid-reward.avi" -non-strict --log all

Filename pattern: [1.00] SxE, [0.00] CWS
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
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