Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: how do you do this? Message-ID: <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 27 Feb 91 07:20:15 GMT References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 10 In article <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (Michael Butler) writes: >Hi there folks; > >Does anyone know how to do the following in a msdos environment? >find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} ; > It might be helpful to state what you want to do. The above is utterly incomprehensible. Use words.