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Hi,
I want to do the following in a Unix shell script and wonder if someone could assist me?

I want to take files in a specific directory that start with the name pxpur012 and copy them to the same directory with the file name not containg pxpur012. For example, I have files like pxpur012_1.html, pxpur012_10.html, pxpur012_20.html, etc. . I want to take these file and copy each to the same directory but minus the pxpur012. The end result will be new files named as follows:
1.html, 10.html, 20.html.


I may also want to add a character to the name, but not sure yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Linda
 

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