in reply to batch rename with a 1 liner

Not a perl solution, but...

If you use bash, you may find the following solution workable: 

$ for i in *.html; do mv $i U${i#new}; done

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See the BASH FAQ (section D3) for more.

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Re: Re: batch rename with a 1 liner
by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 08, 2003 at 08:52 UTC
    Or cutting out bash-specific stuff: 
    for i in *.html; do mv $i `echo $i|sed 's/unwanted/replace/'`; done

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    I recommend putting an echo between the do and mv first to make sure it's doing what you expect.

    Will need further work if you have whitespace in filenames.

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