Globally removing an illegal symbol from file names in the finder

I recently discovered that my method of dating files makes use of the illegal symbol, '/'. Now I have thousands of files with that symbol in them and am having trouble transferring them to my new hard drive. Is there a was that I can globally remove that symbol from the file names via the finder?

Hi
download filelist.dmg
Double click on it to open it. Drag the Filelist app' into your Application Folder, a good a place as anywhere to keep it.
Open the FileList application, it should show as a window.
Drag a file or a group of files onto that open window- the left hand side pane.
... and there you can manipulate the prefix and suffix of the files to give them new file names.
Create a file in text edit, type something in it, save is as test.rtf, and then drag it into the FileList app and experiment with changing its name.
When you get the hang of it, do a group of files as a batch.
I tried to do what you wanted to do in your initial post and was successful, so just have a play around with it.
regards roam

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