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From: ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.005030.2697@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 00:50:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.082345.11807@novell.com>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In article <1991Feb28.082345.11807@novell.com> tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>The News Manager)
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>Reply-To: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
>Organization: Standard Disclaimer
>References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <valley.667677123@gsbsun>
>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

With the GNUish DOS programs I can use the following command:
find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} ;


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