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From: ruthenb@bgsuvax.UUCP (Joe Ruthenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <7063@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 22:51:25 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald):
> 
> 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.
  

Guess your not a unix person, huh? If you have a program like whereis
you can pipe the output into the del command to get results, but
in general what you want to do is not easy. I'm sure somebody figured
out how to do it. Another possibility is to use 4DOS. In 4DOS, you
can use the global command to globally delete all *.bak files. If
you can find a normal dos global command, this will work too. I 
suppose red might work as well. Another thing you might want to
consider is how to delete all 0K files... Hmm...

Joe Ruthenberg
ruthenb@andy.bgsu.edu