diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/de/mpicbg/scicomp/kutils/Bash.kt b/src/main/kotlin/de/mpicbg/scicomp/kutils/Bash.kt
index 122e294..7790c81 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/de/mpicbg/scicomp/kutils/Bash.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/de/mpicbg/scicomp/kutils/Bash.kt
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ data class BashResult(val exitCode: Int, val stdout: Iterable<String>, val stder
 }
 
 
-fun evalBash(cmd: String, showOutput: Boolean = false,
-             redirectStdout: File? = null, redirectStderr: File? = null, wd: File? = null): BashResult {
+fun evalBash(cmd: String, showOutput: Boolean = false, wd: File? = null): BashResult {
 
     try {
 
@@ -20,12 +19,15 @@ fun evalBash(cmd: String, showOutput: Boolean = false,
         val cmd = (if (wd != null) "cd '${wd.absolutePath}'\n" else "") + cmd
 
 
-        var pb = ProcessBuilder("/bin/bash", "-c", cmd) //.inheritIO();
+        var pb = ProcessBuilder("/bin/bash", "-c", cmd)
+        if (showOutput) {
+            pb.inheritIO()
+        }        
         pb.directory(File("."));
         var p = pb.start();
 
-        val outputGobbler = StreamGobbler(p.getInputStream(), if (showOutput) System.out else null)
-        val errorGobbler = StreamGobbler(p.getErrorStream(), if (showOutput) System.err else null)
+        val outputGobbler = StreamGobbler(p.getInputStream())
+        val errorGobbler = StreamGobbler(p.getErrorStream())
 
         // kick them off
         errorGobbler.start()
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ fun evalBash(cmd: String, showOutput: Boolean = false,
 }
 
 
-internal class StreamGobbler(var inStream: InputStream, val printStream: PrintStream?) : Thread() {
+internal class StreamGobbler(var inStream: InputStream) : Thread() {
     var sb = StringBuilder()
 
     override fun run() {
@@ -49,7 +51,6 @@ internal class StreamGobbler(var inStream: InputStream, val printStream: PrintSt
             val br = BufferedReader(isr)
             for (line in br.linesJ7()) {
                 sb.append(line!! + "\n")
-                printStream?.println(line)
             }
         } catch (ioe: IOException) {
             ioe.printStackTrace()
diff --git a/tools/orphan_images/README.md b/tools/orphan_images/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 081e37d..0000000
--- a/tools/orphan_images/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-## Find Orphan Images
-
-Checks a couple of markdown documents for the absence/presence of images files in a directory, and removes orphane images, that is images which are not referenced in the markdown documents.
-
-
-# Installation
-
-```bash
-export PATH=/Users/brandl/projects/kotlin/kutils/tools/orphan_images:$PATH
-orphimg.kt --help
-
-```
-
-or use a url-cached copy
-
-```bash
-alias orphimg=`kscript https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kutils/blob/master/tools/orphan_images/orphimg.kt'
-
-
-orphimg --hell
-```
diff --git a/tools/orphan_images/orphimg.kt b/tools/orphan_images/orphimg.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index 53790cf..0000000
--- a/tools/orphan_images/orphimg.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env kscript
-
-@file:DependsOn("de.mpicbg.scicomp:kutils:0.9.0")
-@file:DependsOn("com.xenomachina:kotlin-argparser:2.0.7")
-
-import com.xenomachina.argparser.ArgParser
-import com.xenomachina.argparser.mainBody
-import java.io.File
-
-class MyArgs(parser: ArgParser) {
-
-    val autoRemove by parser.flagging("-a", "--auto", help = "Automatically remove orphan images")
-    val fileNameOnly by parser.flagging("-f", "--file-only", help = "Just take the last path element (aka file name) for usage search")
-    val recursive by parser.flagging("-r", "--recursive", help = "Recursively scan the target directory for image files")
-    val imageDirectory by parser.positional("DIRECTORY", "The directory which should be cleaned for orphan images")
-
-    val markdownFiles by parser.positionalList("MD-FILES", "Markdown files to be used as reference to detect orphaness")
-}
-
-fun main(_args: Array<String>) {
-    val args = mainBody { ArgParser(_args).parseInto(::MyArgs) }
-
-    fun File.isImageFile() = listOf("jpg", "png").contains(extension)
-
-    // see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2056221/recursively-list-files-in-java
-    val imageDir = File(args.imageDirectory)
-
-    val imagesFiles = if (args.recursive) {
-        imageDir.walkTopDown().maxDepth(3).filter { it.isImageFile() }
-    } else {
-        imageDir.listFiles { it -> it.isImageFile() }.asSequence()
-    }
-
-
-    // ingest all markdown files
-    val mdContent = args.markdownFiles.flatMap { File(it).readLines() }
-
-    // check for orphanness
-    val orphans = imagesFiles.filter { imgFile ->
-        val query = if (args.fileNameOnly) imgFile.name else imageDir.name + "/" + imgFile.name
-
-        mdContent.none {
-            it.contains(query)
-        }
-    }
-
-    orphans.map { println(it) }
-
-    if(args.autoRemove){
-        print("Removing orphans...")
-        orphans.forEach{it.delete()}
-        println("Done")
-    }
-}
-