diff --git a/tests/cleanup.bash b/tests/cleanup.bash
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+# This simple script ensures that all binary
+# output files have been deleted in all the
+# folders. This can occur if a previous error
+# occurred and the test suite was rerun without
+# deleting left over binary files. This will
+# cause an assertion error in some of the 
+# tests.
+for i in ./*; do
+  if [ -d "$i" ]; then
+    cd $i
+    rm -f *.binary *.h5
+    cd ..
+  fi
+done