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From: dnicola@cs.vu.nl (Nicolaas Dion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Recursively removing directories
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Date: 1 Feb 91 15:26:33 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.155305.12156@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>       I'm sure this is a trivial question, but a scientist here has a
> PS/2 hooked up to some sort of lab instrument.  The instrument control
> program creates, for each run, a directory called <bunch of numbers>.smp
> and puts 4 files in it.  Naturally, after several hundred runs, his disk is
> starting to get full and he wants to remove all of the old data.  Also,
> naturally, he asked me how to do it, but being basically a Unix type I
> couldn't figure out what to do.  Can somebody please tell me the DOS
> equivelant of Unix's "rm -r *.smp"?
> --

Working with DOS no such questions are trivial. Except for the
good advice I've read on getting decent utilities via FTP, I
can think of the following:
Generate a file using 'tree /f' containing the files to be
deleted, and edit it making it a batch file deleting the
stuff. Should be no problem with a good editor. However, this
is a one time solution.

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