Change spaces or dots in file name to dashes

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi,

> > How can change spaces or dots in a file name to dashes using the Console?
> 
> ls FILENAME | tr " ." "--"

TMTOWTDI of course :-P

TTFN


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