How to rename a long list of photo filenames?

[Alan Dayley]

Josef Lowder said:
>
> I have hundreds of photo files that I would like to rename
> to shorter names.  In the past, I have made a shell script
> to do this for some of these, but I'm sure there must be a
> better/easier way to do it than the way I've been doing it.
>
> Also, I'd like to be able to globally make thumbnails of
> each photo with the same name but with an added letter "t"
> preceding the .jpg

I have used the script with good effect for just renaming:
http://www.xscd.com/pub/mvb/mvb_README.txt

Making thumbnails is something else.  I am anxious to see the responses
you get for that part of the question.

Alan