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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 17:52:03 GMT
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mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:


>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.

I assume he wants to delete all the .BAK files in the current and all
sub- directories.  Get UFIND, an MS/DOS implementation of Unix Find.  It
does this and much more...