Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: how do you do this? Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 00:34:53 GMT References: <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <7063@bgsuvax.UUCP> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 20 ruthenb@bgsuvax.UUCP (Joe Ruthenberg) writes: >Guess your not a unix person, huh? If you have a program like whereis >you can pipe the output into the del command to get results, but >in general what you want to do is not easy. I'm sure somebody figured >out how to do it. Another possibility is to use 4DOS. In 4DOS, you >can use the global command to globally delete all *.bak files. If >you can find a normal dos global command, this will work too. I >suppose red might work as well. Another thing you might want to >consider is how to delete all 0K files... Hmm... >Joe Ruthenberg >ruthenb@andy.bgsu.edu > As I said, (U)find will do all this, and more. There is also a PCMAG (I think) utility called SWEEP that can globalize any command. You say "SWEEP {cmd} ..." and it runs {cmd} in each and every subdir on the disk.