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Matching and Replacing Characters

I need to write an Unix script to report the number of SQL files in my home directory, ending with .sql . The script should, also, be checking whether there is a file with an underscore in its name. If that is the case, the underscore should be converted to a dash (‐); for example week01_exercise01.sql should be converted to week01‐exercise01.sql .Script
should record the number of changes made and output them to the user
(i.e. if i have two files with underscore in their name, the output of the script after having made the conversions should be two) .

can somebody help me with that ?
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