On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 19:17, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > <nitpick follows> > PS: for i in images/*.ppm images/*.pbm; do rm -vf $$i.gz ... hurts my > eyes. Please quote $$i.gz, ie.: "$$i.gz". ;-) > PPS: I'd use sind find -print0 ... | xargs -0 rm .... Even better, xargs -0r rm. That way, rm won't throw an error if no files exist. (Yes, I know you know this :->) Adam