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For existing entries (and apologies not the slickest production solution):

Code:

ls -1 /tmp/Access_file_Record*.* | while read line
do
  IFS=.
  set $line
  IFS=" "
  if [ $2 = "txt" ]
  then
    echo "mv $line $1"
    mv $line $1
  else
    echo "mv $line $1$2"
    mv $line $1$2
  fi
done

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you may also want to look at this thread problem with sed * wildcard to have more clarity....

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