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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace multiple dots (.) with spaces ( ) Post 302312722 by Monkey Dean on Sunday 3rd of May 2009 02:34:05 AM
Old 05-03-2009
Replace multiple dots (.) with spaces ( )

Hi all,

I have files in the filename pattern of,
this.is.the.name.of.my.file.mov

and I would like to remove dots (.) and replace them with spaces ( ) so the output would be,
this is the name of my file.mov

The other issue that I have is that the number of dots (.) in the file name is dependent on how many words are in the name so will always be different i.e.
this.is.the.name.of.my.file.mov or

this.is.my.file.mov or

my.file.mov and so on...
Is it possible to use a script to replace the dots (.) with spaces ( ) leaving the .file extention on filenames with different character lengths?

I currently use this script to delete txt from filenames,

Code:
find . -type f | while read i;do [ "$i" != "${i//abc/}" ] && mv "$i" "${i//abc/}" ;done

but I don't think I can use it in this case.

Thanks in advance!!! Smilie
 

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NAME
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