Re: recursively deleting *.dvi files

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From: Sean Fulton
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 15:10

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In article <41724@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
>I want to write some script for deleting *.dvi files recursively in
>all my subdirectories but I haven't got any idea yet. Can somebody
>shed some light on this?
>

Try:
	find . -name `*.dvi` -print -exec rm -f {} \;


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Subject: Re: recursively deleting *.dvi files
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Date: 21 Oct 90 15:10:18 GMT
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