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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <2851@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:12:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <valley.667677123@gsbsun>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <valley.667677123@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) 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 {} ;


(For plain vanilla DOS:)

chkdsk /v | find ".BAK" > 'temp_file.bat'

edit that 'temp_file.bat' and add in front of every line the magic word 'del '

run that file.
You got it.


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