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From: rkumar@buddha.usc.edu
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Subject: cleanup script needed
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Date: 4 Mar 89 19:54:47 GMT
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This may be quite silly to the UNIX wizards.

1) Frequently I need to erase unnecessary files to save space.
It would be nice to have a script which removes all
the files with a specified extension, e.g., .dvi or .aux
not only in the current directory, but in all the 
children directories recursively. 
Will rm -r *.dvi do the job? Since it is an "rm" command,
I don't want to try it out ... 

2) Sometimes I create a file in a directory which is deep
down in a directory hierarchy. Any quick way to search for
a file, given its name/template?

Thanks 
Ravi
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Pardon me, but UNIX *is* male chauvinistic. Look at all those
*man* commands!
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