[ale] help with batch file renaming

[David S. Jackson]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0400 Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> I have a number of image files I need to rename.  Example:
> 
> 2003_Billy_Bob_01.jpg
> 2003_Billy_Bob_02.jpg
> 
> to
> 
> 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_01.jpg
> 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_02.jpg
> 
> There may be 50 or more files I need to rename at a time.  I have been 
> playing with rename to no avail.  Anyone know a bash script or something 
> to make my life easier?

Try this:

for f in *; do mv $f ${f%%_*}_Jo_${f#*_}; done

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