renaming mat and subdirectories

Thousands of files and subdirectories contain as part of their names a wrong name "Naic" that I want to change to "Trace". Is it possible to do in an easy way. i.e is it possible to replace a name in thousands of files and subdirectories easily?

[Rick Rosson]

Are all of these files and subdirectories stored in one top-level parent directory?

[joseph Frank]

yes

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See the user contribution renamefile

Answer 2

[Rick Rosson]

Please take a look at the following functions:

   >> doc genpath
   >> doc dir
   >> doc movefile
   >> doc regexprep

I think you can create a script to do what you are asking using these functions.

HTH.

Rick