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Old 01-05-2009
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Depends on what you have in that directory....
check:
ls -al ABC*.TXT| wc -l
Gives you how many files?

Have you tried

Code:
mv ABC?XYZ.TXT  ABCXYZ.TXT

Theres many options... (with sed for example..)