daemon@ucbvax.UUCP (08/21/83)
From GEOFF5@SRI-CSL Sun Aug 21 01:49:41 1983 One way to delete entire directory trees is to use DIRECTORY to generate a file containing a list of the files to be deleted, SORT this file, then create a command procedure by prefixing each line in this file with $ DELETE . This is by no means a nice, clean method, but is faster than any alternative I can think of for large trees. Example: $ DIRECTORY/NOHEAD/NOTRAIL/OUTPUT=TEMP.TMP DBC0:[ADAIR...]*.* $ SORT/KEY=(POS:1,SIZ:80) TEMP.TMP TEMP.TMP ( Use your favorite editor to create DELETE commands out of each line in TEMP.TMP. ) $ @TEMP.TMP $ DELETE TEMP.TMP;* Note: You may want to give yourself DELETE access to the directory files that are going to be deleted before running the procedure. Taylor Adair Leeds & Northrup Co.