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From: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: how do you do this?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 11:41:29 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.072015.7027@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Feb27.154923.28267@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <valley.667677123@gsbsun>
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In article <valley.667677123@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>>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 {} ;
>>It might be helpful to state what you want to do. The above is
>>utterly incomprehensible. Use words.
>I assume he wants to delete all the .BAK files in the current and all
>sub- directories.  Get UFIND, an MS/DOS implementation of Unix Find.  It
>does this and much more...


Use 4dos.

Then:
global del *.bak


   Michael Schaap
   msschaa@cs.vu.nl