agreed, this is exactly the sort of thing for loops in shell are useful for.. incidentally, in zsh you can do this with for f (*.md) pandoc $f --to html > $

agreed, this is exactly the sort of thing for loops in shell are useful for.. incidentally, in zsh you can do this with for f (*.md) pandoc $f --to html > $f:r.html personally I find that when I can fit a loop on a single line in zsh I'm much more inclined to use them