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From: rmich@Lise.Unit.NO (Rolf Michelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Keywords: whereis
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Date: 28 Feb 91 10:58:35 GMT
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Mike Butler writes:
> Hi there folks;

> Does anyone know how to do the following in a msdos environment?
> find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} ;

I thinks you should find what you are looking for in the <msdos.filutl> directory
on Simtel. Download the program WHEREIS. (Don't remember the exact name at the
moment, but it is something like whereis4...) This is a powerful shareware file
finder with the ability to delete found files.

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