On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:40:34AM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > and waste time trying to come up with a script to > run and find the .desktop files with NoDisplay=true ... Here you go #!/bin/sh cd /usr/share/applications || exit 1 perl -pi -e 's{NoDisplay=true}{NoDisplay=false}' \ $(grep -l NoDisplay=true *.desktop) exit :-) Results are maybe not exactly what you truly want. To find only just run grep part. Michal