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From: wolf@netcom.COM (Buckskin Tech.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Summary: Translation
Message-ID: <26177@netcom.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 09:07:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, 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.

Translation:

Recursively decend the directory struction from the current directory,
deleting all *.bak files as you go.

(personally, I use an "rm" clone and say:
   rm -r *.bak
but my rm came with a commercial package)

 - Phil @ Buckskin Technologies