On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Steve Polyack <korvus at comcast.net> wrote: > You're missing the statement that tells bash/sh you are done with the > loop. Try it this way: > > for i in 'dpkg -l|grep xserver-xorg-video'; do 'dpkg --purge $i'; done Ah I see. Thanks Steve. I was close at least heh. Zach