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Originally Posted by bugmenot

ls *.done | while read line ; do mv $line $(basename $line .done) ; done

You don't need ls.

You don't need basename (an external command).

Your script will fail if any filenames contain spaces, because you haven't quoted "$line" and "$(basename $line .done)"

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for file in *.done
do
  mv "$file" "${file%.done}"
done

for file in *.done do mv "$file" "${file%.done}" done