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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.074840.27415@uwasa.fi>
Date: 2 Mar 91 07:48:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <17403@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <17403@milton.u.washington.edu> roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) 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 {} ;
>
>Get the excellent DEL replacement PDELETE from
>wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/dirutl/pdel42.zip.

Quite right.  Another of the many solutions is using sweep.com:
  sweep del *.bak which performs the operation on the default
directory and the whole tree below it.  This has a similar advantage
as the original question's Unix find command, that you can sweep
with commands other than del (vs rm) if you so wish.  Sweep.com is
included in /pc/pcmag/vol4n24.zip at our site. 

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