How to remove specific characters from a file name?

Question

I have bunch of files that need to have a (.) dot removed from the file-name. Eg. "Mr.-John-Smith.jpg" to "Mr-John-Smith.jpg". I don't have real experience with programming and know only html/css and a little javascript. I found another identical question here on stackoverflow, but what I gathered it was fixed on linux system and BASH was used.

Anyways, if anyone could provide me a tutorial on which program to use for this and what code to execute in that program to make it happen I'd be grateful.

Solution

if you are using a windows environment (which i guess you do)

you can download this free utility to mass change file names !

main page : http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

download page : http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

its easy to use

enjoy

Comments

[Spectre]

Great program. Well organized into sections (replace, add, remove, etc). Everything worked on first try! thanks.