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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for a specific utility
Message-ID: <713@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 21 Aug 89 21:51:31 GMT
References: <6868@rpi.edu> <20.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <20.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP> richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent) writes:
>> From: sdn@anyguay.acm.rpi.edu (Eric Roode)
>> PC magazine published a utility at least a year ago (I don't remember the
>> specific issue) called SWEEP that applied a command to the current directory
>> and to all subdirectories under the current directory. If you can find out
>
>I have done this regularly from within DOS. Syntax? Try:
>c> for %f in (*.*) do your_command_line

Yes, certainly.  But unless I have missed something essential in
your thinking, this only works for the current directory.  Sweep
extends a command to the subdirectories, as well.  Right?
   All the best,  Timo

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