laredotornado wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In a given directory, how do I change all file names such that I
> replace the string "show" with the string "event" in the file title?

If you have bash, you could do (case-sensitive):

for name in *show*; do
# replaces first occurrence of "show"
newname="${name/show/event}"
# to replace all occurrences, uncomment next line
#newname="${name//show/event}"
mv -- "$name" "$newname"
done

This should work even if filenames have strange characters in them (or at
least seems to work in my tests; I've tried with filenames containing
quotes, newlines, * and ?).

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