Jose, thanks, but still no error checking :-)-O
lyx2lyx is a python script, so I am wondering whether there is not perhaps a way of doing this inside the script, perhaps with something like --upgrade-in-place (so it's not used by accident) and do this inside the script? Don't know python myself, unfortunately :-)-O el On 08/08/2017 20:30, José Abílio Matos wrote: [...] > Using bash in one line we have (backup file.lyx -> file.old.lyx): > > > > for lfile in $(find . -name '*lyx' -print); do > ofile=${lfile%%.lyx}.old.lyx; lyx2lyx < $ofile -o $lfile; done [...]