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From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: recursively deleting *.dvi files
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Date: 20 Oct 90 01:39:54 GMT
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In article <41724@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
 >I want to write some script for deleting *.dvi files recursively in
 >all my subdirectories but I haven't got any idea yet. Can somebody
 >shed some light on this?
 >

Not need for a script.  To delete *.dvi files in the current directory 
and all its subdirectories, do:

    find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm

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