Does anyone out there know of a way for me to remove periods from a group of files without removing the period that delineates the extension.  I have had moderate success with removing periods, but cannot seem to do so without removing that danged last one.  If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.


Do you mean from the name of the file?  Renaming files to a pattern?  Which shell?

Sorry, I am using a Bash script to remove punctuation and spaces from the filename. for example, if a photo was named "John's Mother 7.4.2002.jpg"  the result would be "JohnsMother742002.jpg".

You will probably accuse me of cheating, but this works!

Code:

#!/bin/bash perl -e 'foreach(glob("*")){$s=$_;s/(.*)\./\1\//;s/[^[:alnum:]\/]//g;s/\//./;rename($s,$_);}'

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