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From: rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.141712.17221@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 14:17:12 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.

	Never worked in a Unix environment, eh? :-)

	The above is the standard way to find all files with the extension
.bak from the current directory and underlying subdirectories and delete them.
Buy the MKS Toolkit and you can use that exact command line.

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