I note that you left out the #!/bin/ksh line that I had in the script I gave you.

In my test directory, where the output from the command:

Code:

ls -1ad .*

is:

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.
..
.find~9876~576
.report~5678~123
.test~1234~567

the output from my script running on OS X is:

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mv .find~9876~576 find~9876~576
mv .report~5678~123 report~5678~123
mv .test~1234~567 test~1234~567

I'm glad that bipinajith's script worked for you, but I'd still like to know why ksh or bash on AIX didn't work for you. What shell did you use? What happens if you run the command:

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ksh NameOfFileContainingMyScript

instead of:

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~/mvhidden

Note that ~/mvhidden runs a command found in your home directory; did you by any chance have different versions of mvhidden in different directories?