Bulk Rename Utility

Hi All

I have a folder full of sub folders and within those, some files that have . at the beginning.

Would someone please tell me the best way to run through all sub folders and remove any leading . or replace them with _ ?

Thanks

Simon

Select your parent folder.

12:Filters -> Subfolders (if need, seems you do)

3:Replace
.
with
<leave blank>

Looks like it should work:

._namespace.js ---> _namespace.js

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is, we don't want to replace all dots - only any that are the first character on the file path.

We are uploading onto SharePoint and it doesn't like it if a . is the first character but they can exist elsewhere in the file name.

Heh, oh.

And when I searched on my end for files that started with ., my search was (in Everything) regex:^\.

So... in BRU try this instead of 3:Replace:

1:RegEx

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Match:  (^\.)(.*)
Replace:  \2


With Javascript Renaming in Bulk Rename Utility:

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if (name.charAt(0) == ".") newName = name.substring(1);

the above script removes the . in the first position.

Or to replace with _ :

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if (name.charAt(0) == ".") newName = "_" + name.substring(1);