#!/bin/ksh year=2010 basedir=/home/webbie/Data/CurrentWeather/archive set -A subdirs 'anims' 'plots' 'plots_anom' for this_dir in `ls -d ${basedir}/${year}*` ; do echo ${this_dir} for this_subdir in ${subdirs[@]} ; do cd ${this_dir}/${this_subdir} echo ${this_dir}/${this_subdir} for this_bzip2file in `ls *.gif.bz2` ; do echo ${this_dir}/${this_subdir}/${this_bzip2file} bunzip2 ${this_bzip2file} done done done