I've been poking at this for some time now, super-searched and checked perlrun, but I'm stuck. I have a dir full of files that I need to rename. The files are similar to these: 
newcam_boards.html
newcam_boards_contents.html
newcam_title.html
newcam_title.shtml
newcam_title_contents.html
newcam_title_contents.shtml

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The project got renamed and now I need to change filenames to reflect the change. They should now be: 
Ucam_boards.html
Ucam_boards_contents.html
Ucam_title.html
Ucam_title.shtml
Ucam_title_contents.html
Ucam_title_contents.shtml

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The closest I have gotten in my unix system is this one-liner and it's subsequent error: 
%perl -e 'while(<*html>){m/newcam(_\w+\.s?html)/;rename $_,Ucam$1}'
Can't locate object method "Ucam" via package "_boards.html" at -e lin
+e 1.

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Am I way off base here?
(PS: Thanks to jeffa and some of his previous post for getting me this far!)

-theo-
(so many nodes and so little time ... )
Note: All opinions are untested, unless otherwise stated

In reply to batch rename with a 1 liner by Theo

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