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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 04:07:27 GMT
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einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:

> >>In article <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (
> >>>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'

For 4dos (which should be on every DOS machine, IMHO :-), it's simply

global del *.bak

or you can use a genuine find, like that in
PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>UXUTL162.ZIP on Simtel.
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