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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Re: how do you do this?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 20:02:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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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.

that's easy:  he wants to find all the files with the suffix .bak under the
current directory (and its directories) and execute an arbitrary command (in
this case, "rm {filename_here}").

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