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New guy needing help writing a Unix Script
I'm very new with Unix and and am needing assistance in writing a Unix script that will uncompress a dated file then rename it. The script will also need to remove several old files that have a similar naming. The directory that the files reside in is call achdirdep the file that I need uncompress is named achdirdep_concat_.out.200906040429.Z. I would then need to rename that file to achdirdep_concat_.out. The file step would be to remove all files that are like achdirdep_concat_.out.200*

Your help is appreciated.
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Old 06-06-2009
what have you tried till now??
 
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