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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cleanup script needed
Message-ID: <9793@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Mar 89 08:22:14 GMT
References: <15659@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15659@oberon.USC.EDU> rkumar@buddha.usc.edu () writes:
>Will rm -r *.dvi do the job?

No, try	"find . -name '*.dvi' -print | xargs rm".

>Any quick way to search for a file, given its name/template?

"find . -name whatever -print"