I'm so relieved to be back at my keyboard, with a roof over my head, fridge full of food, and plentiful water of varied temperature. I was feeling kind of stuck because I had a repository that I had downloaded that didn't have the proper credentials, and it was preventing updating. I got that all cleared away, so now I have:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:    focal
$
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One of the first things I'll do is create a webpage describing the trip, and that is going to require that a bunch of odd images gets herded to the net, with an exact number of corresponding captions. For this task, I find that I can really economize on GUI events with perl and a little skill on the command line.

But I'm one of those guys who would make every mistake in the book if I started at square one. I know that I had a thread some time back called renaming all files in a directory. I tried to search for this with keywords but had to resort to scrolling through my writeups back to 2012. I was gonna complain that the search didn't work. However, I had searched for the word 'rename' not 'renaming', and I realize that the problem is not with the software.

I tried one of the answers I hadn't used before:

 ls | perl -nle 'BEGIN {$counter=0}; $old=$_;$new="image"."$counter"."
+.jpg";
+rename($old,$new);$counter++;' 
$
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That command didn't work at first, but I could get my way to one that did because what exists between single quotations is lexical perl that I understand. And gosh, I've been pretty diligent about studying this including taking in Util's talk at 2020 perl conference, which helped me understand how people "get there on the command line."

$ ls | perl -nle 'BEGIN {$counter=0}; $old=$_;$new="image"."$counter".
+"jpg";
> +rename($old,$new);$counter++;' 
$ ls | perl -nle 'BEGIN {$counter=0}; $old=$_;$new="image"."$counter".
+".jpg";
+rename($old,$new);$counter++;' 
$
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and voila...

$ pwd
/home/hogan/6.scripts.personal/1.umatilla.1./template_stuff/aimages
$ ls
image0.jpg   image12.jpg  image15.jpg  image3.jpg  image6.jpg  image9.
+jpg
image10.jpg  image13.jpg  image1.jpg   image4.jpg  image7.jpg
image11.jpg  image14.jpg  image2.jpg   image5.jpg  image8.jpg
$
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Another modification gets my captions looking all uniform, so I know I've got a bijection going:

ls | perl -nle 'BEGIN {$counter=0}; $old=$_;$new="caption"."$counter".
+".txt";
+rename($old,$new);$counter++;'
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$ pwd
/home/hogan/6.scripts.personal/1.umatilla.1./template_stuff/captions
$ ls
caption0.txt   caption13.txt  caption2.txt  caption6.txt
caption10.txt  caption14.txt  caption3.txt  caption7.txt
caption11.txt  caption15.txt  caption4.txt  caption8.txt
caption12.txt  caption1.txt   caption5.txt  caption9.txt
$
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Now I know that my data will be well-conditioned for use by other scripts to get it onto the net.

This was just my day in having perl making something easier....