Bulk File Rename

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The help suggests it may be possible to bulk rename a set of files as below;

"Copy/Rename/Move Dialog Box
This dialog box appears when you click Copy or Rename on the Manage Files dialog box.

Confirm that the files in the From box are what you want, and edit them if necessary, then type the destination file name, wild card or directory name in the To box.

The Browse button brings up the standard Open File dialog box, so that you can select the destination file name."

I can get the "Manage File" utilitiy to select all the files with a wildcard selection that I want to rename (eg *_01.utd collects all the files in the "Rename/Move From" dialogue, however when I enter &_nx5_01.utd as the replacement string for the mass renaming it is interpretting the ampersand as a literal character and not the filename text string leading up to the text subsitituion that is needed. So the first file it finds on disk is renamed to &_nx5_01.utd

eg original sample file "original_01.utd" should be renamed to "original_nx5_01.utd" and so on for original1_01.utd, original2_01.utd....