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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
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Subject: Re: how do you do this?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 13:46:10 GMT
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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 those of us who don't know UNIX, how about filling us in on what this
does?  I believe that there is a PD program called sweep that will come
close to what you want.

SWEEP DEL *.BAK

I don't know what that -name means though.

Brian