Thanks you folks!

Dale had the easiest solution for my question (and I think I may even remember it :).

Brian, I had a hard time figuring yours out but only because the empty replacement text made it unclear AND that the explanation was way far down in the tldp page you referenced.

Ed, I was not able to get detox to compile on my Ubuntu 10.04 system.  I THINK it was because there is no lex/yacc here as noted was needed in the README.

larry@triggerfish:~/Downloads/tmp/detox-1.2.0$ make
gcc -o detox detox.o file.o clean_string.o table.o parse_table.o config_file_l.o config_file_y.o config_file_spoof.o config_file_dump.o parse_options_getopt.o parse_options_generic.o
config_file_l.o: In function `yylex':
/home/larry/Downloads/tmp/detox-1.2.0/lex.yy.c:1010: undefined reference to `yywrap'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [detox] Error 1
larry@triggerfish:~/Downloads/tmp/detox-1.2.0$

and there is no yacc in the repositories, just a number of replacements for it.  The above error is from after installing bison which seemed likely to be the clearest path.

I don't think I will pursue that further at this time although detox might be useful sometime.  Thanks again.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Brian Parma <freecode@cox.net> wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 03:45 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> I have finished doing the work but did it manually.  For future reference,
> I'd like to re-learn what I forgot from 20+ years ago about how to do this
> the easy way.  Basically, I had a directory full of files that I wanted to
> process all the same way and rename them in the process.  What I could not
> remember was how with globbing, I could specify the output name part that
> was wild-carded in the input should be used in the output.
>
> Lets say I have a bunch of files named Screenshot-PXEmenu-*.png and I want
> to copy or rename them to PXEmenu-*.png.  Both mv and copy fail
> (understandably?) using "<command> Screenshot-PXEmenu-*.png PXEmenu-*.png".
> I am pretty sure there is a way to make one or both work with a syntax for
> the target I do not remember.  Any clues?
>
> The names are real, though what I was really doing was using the convert
> command of ImageMagick to negate all the colors in those screenshots so I
> had a specified input and output file anyway.  NTL, the base question here
> is the real one.
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
 Hi Larry, if the files have spaces in them, I make my life easier and
run detox[1] on them first. Otherwise the command rename should do
what you want: rename FROMpattern TOpattern Files

rename Screenshot-PXE PXE Screenshot-PXE*

if the files had spaces you wanted to keep.. do a find with the
-print0 into an xargs with the -0 option that runs the rename.
also bash does slice up strings in variables - see # ## % %% - kind of
a match 'n scratch - good for scripting.
x=Screenshot
echo ${x#Screen}

Ed
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/detox/
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