diff --git a/lib/database/open b/lib/database/open
index 078153f..f193a07 100644
--- a/lib/database/open
+++ b/lib/database/open
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ openDatabase() {
 		> "$tempdir/sqlite.out"	&
 	exec 3> "$tempdir"/sqlite.in
 	exec 4< "$tempdir"/sqlite.out
-	rm "$tempdir"/sqlite.in "$tempdir"/sqlite.out
+	rm "$tempdir"/sqlite.{in,out}
 	if (( debug > 2 ))
 	then
 		exec 5>&3