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Mar 28, 2011

I am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :

the files are films names :

a.b.c.d.***.iso

the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "

this command :

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put a space also before the extension iso ??

How can I rename files from

"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"

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