Commandline copy with Wildcard mask 2

[lameid]

I have files named like

longText1.ext
longText2.ext
....


I want to copies like...

longText1VerB.ext
longText2VerB.ext
....

From dos days I expect eh following to work...

copy *.ext *VerB.ext

What this makes is files named...

longText1.extVerB.ext
longText2.extVerB.ext

So the question is what can I do instead? This seems like it should be really simple.

I did run across

http://superuser.com/questions/475874/how-does-the...

but I did not see the solution there but it is at least somewhat illuminating.

 

[guitarzan]

I think we have a winner...

Well done, madonnac... It worked for me perfectly, except I would just add that there is an extra dot... I believe it should be:
for %A in (*.ext) do ren %A %~nAVerA%~xA

I was not aware at all those tilde options. Have a star!