On Tuesday 24 August 2004 17:10, Jeff Pitman wrote: > I was going to recommend this one liner: > > sed 's/\(.*\.pyo\)/%ghost \1/' < INSTALLED_FILES > > INSTALLED_FILES.ghostbusted > > %files -f INSTALLED_FILES.ghostbusted > %doc README INSTALL LICENSE > %dir %{_libdir}/python?.?/site-packages/blah > %dir %{_libdir}/python?.?/site-packages/blah/subblah For directories, I found something similar to this useful: find %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version} -type d | while read d; do echo "%dir $d"; done >>INSTALLED_FILES find %{_libdir}/python%{pybasever}/site-packages/foo -type d | while read d; do echo "%dir $d"; done >>INSTALLED_FILES take care, -- -jeff