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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.082345.11807@novell.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 02:18:19 GMT
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 08:23:45 GMT

In article <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (Michael Butler) writes:
>Does anyone know how to do the following in a msdos environment?
>find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} ;

There is a utility "SWEEP". I believe it is a PC Magazine or PC Computing
utility (not sure, though). Go into the directory from which you want
to delete all the bak files down through all sub-directories, and type
SWEEP DEL *.BAK
That will take care of it.

Tony