change $target before setting directory names

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I want to delete the dot in .com and replace with - or something when setting the working directory.. I hate periods in my directory names. probably copy $target into a new variable, then sed or something and get the . out and replace with - and then save that as a new variable called something like $target_directory and use that for inside of targets/

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