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Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
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Date: 12 Jul 90 22:04:43 GMT
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> As for deleting a number of files in nested directories, no CLI
> (command line interface) I have ever used can do this. 

The command language used on mainframes sold by Control Data is called SCL 
and supports wild card expressions on commands tailored to the type of data
the command expects to see.  With the standard command to delete a catalog `
(directory) you can delete all nested directories.  With the standard 
command to delete one or more files you can delete files in nested 
catalogs which match the wild card expression.

  delete_file files=$working_catalog.$next.a*

will delete all files in all subdirectories of $working_catalog which start
with "a".