mv multiple files w/wildcard

[Lance Hoffmeyer <lanceh@ibm.net>]

I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as 
name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to:
name: title.txt

In bash I tried:

for i in *-*;do mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/ - /:/'`'done 

but this gives me an error about moving multiple files and needing a directory


I also tried on e-line perl script

perl -we '($new=$_) =~tr/\s-\s/:\s/ && rename _$,$new'

but I get uninitialized value errors.  Any help on either of these methods to 
rename files would be appreciated. Also, how would I use these for multiple subdirectories at once?

Thanks in advance. 

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                                Lance Hoffmeyer
                                 lanceh@ibm.net

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