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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
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Subject: Re: Utility Request -  Walking the Tree
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:36:37 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.151041.9590@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Sep25.151041.9590@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> edjcb@earth.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>I need a utility that will walk the tree structure from a specified point
>down and execute commands on each file it finds.  I'd like to avoid the
>pipe approach to this -- piping a directory list output into something
>that will execute the desired command.  I already have RESWALK to do that.
>
>What I really want to do is delete large chunks of files in the tree and
>ideally remove the resulting empty directories.  Any suggestions would
>be appreciated by mail.  Thanks a 1,000,000 -- Jeff
>
>Jeff Brown (216) 433-3888
>edjcb@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov

	Maybe the UNIX-like utility, rm, with the -r option is what you
want. 'rm -r directory-name' will REMOVE EVERYTHING (Careful!) including
files AND directories from (and including) 'directory-name' on down in 
the tree.
	Also, SWEEP, from the PC Magazine utilities is useful for
executing a given command in every directory.
	Good luck,

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