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Old 09-22-2007
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Case1: TestFish_done.txt to Test Fish Done.txt,


Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for oldfile in $(find . -name TestFish*)
do
   newfile="$(echo $oldfile | sed 's/Test/Test /g'|sed 's/\_/ /g')"
   mv "$oldfile" "$newfile"
done

Case2: FishOne_done.txt to FishOne.txt


Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for oldfile in $(find . -name FishOne*)
do
   newfile="$(echo $oldfile | sed 's/_done//g')"
   mv "$oldfile" "$newfile"
done