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In article <ONEEL.91Jun6074333@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov> oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) writes:
>In article <1991Jun5.203434.8397@hubcap.clemson.edu> tjmurr@hubcap.clemson.edu (Tom Murray) writes:
>
>   I need a DOS executable that will recursively delete the contents of a 
>   directory, its subdirectories and the directory itself (you may recognize
>   this as the function of the Unix 'rm -r' command.)
>
>   Is such free for the taking by ftp anywhere?
>
>   Please reply directly to tom@cs.clemson.edu.
>
>
>Yep.  Even called rm and looks quite similar to the unix version.
>It's part of the gnuish ms-dos project (port of gnu software to
>ms-dos) and it's available on wuarchive.wustl.edu in
>mirrors/msdos/gnuish and I believe the file name is futilxx.arc.
>Quite a number of other files there as well.
>
>bruce
>--
>Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
>NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664

I use the gnu utilities under MS-DOS.  IMHO they're great!  One 
advantage that they have over some other variants (including MKS)
is that each utility (such as rm) does its own wildcard expansion.
So you can do something like:

    rm *demo.*

This morning I forgot that DOS doesn't do this right and did a

   del *demo.*

DOS, of course, knew that what I really wanted to do is 

   del *.*

And asked me if I was sure.  I was still thinking *demo.* and answered
Y.  Good thing I had just backed up the directory (and had Norton's
Util.)

Ken Seymour
seymour@astech.ast.saic.com

Switching between DOS and Unix each day can be hazardous to your
mental health.  -- me