You might have had an case if this code was part of larger project, but you're saying you assumed it wasn't?

If it's not part of a bigger project, then it's a command line tool. Mixing everything together like that makes for a very bad command line tool. It makes it harder to use, and that's not even counting the difficulty in grepping the format you used.

You also removed the code that makes it useful outside a big project: the reporting of whether an error occurred or not via the exit code.

Finally, convention and tradition is being ignored without justification. Doing something different without reason is poor programming.

In reply to Re^4: Need help deleting *.bak files by ikegami
in thread Need help deleting *.bak files by MikeDexter

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