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Batch renaming of files using regular expression in Unix

I have several thousand files of the form: [8-digit number]_[number I want]_S60491_I129111.dcm. I wish to remove everything except the number I want, and use that as its name. In Ruby, I can get to ...
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Mass Rename Files with bash

I've got a bunch of numbered files like this: file #01.ext file #02.ext file #03.ext file #04.ext file #05.ext And what I want is to make them all have three digits (two leading 0's) instead of ...
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Truncate all files in a directory after underscore?

I have a directory with a couple thousand images in it. Most of them have sensible filenames like SD-000.tif SD-001.tif BX-000.tif etc... However probably ~25% of them have names like BX-003_old.tif ...
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Mass renaming files, removing dots

I want to rename files as to delete unneccessary dots. ie: File.something.jpg -> Filesomething.jpg I.Have.Too.Many.Dots.png -> IHaveTooManyDots.png How can this be done? find -name *.*.* ...