Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccicpg!mendip!mhr From: mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?}) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: how do you do this? Message-ID: <15711@mendip.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 91 00:48:56 GMT References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Organization: ICL North America Lines: 27 In <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu>, butler@saturn.sdsu.edu writes: > Hi there folks; > > Does anyone know how to do the following in a msdos environment? > find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} ; > > Thank you, > Mike Butler > butler@cs.sdsu.edu If you have 4DOS, then GLOBAL del *.bak should do it. If not, get ahold of the PC Magazine utility SWEEP.COM and use SWEEP DEL *.BAK from the directory in which you are interested in doing this thing. Sweep is available from the SIMTEL archive in: PD1:VOL4N24.ARC (contains SWEEP and WAITASEC) among other places. Regards. -- Mark A. Hull-Richter UUCP: ccicpg!mhr In all things, restraint, ICL North America especially with respect 9801 Muirlands Blvd to posting articles and Irvine, CA 92713 (714)458-7282x4539 doubly so for flames.