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- SWEEP Charles Petzold
- Command PC Magazine Vol 4, No 23
- Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
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- Purpose: Causes a command to be successively executed
- in every subdirectory on a hard disk.
-
- Format: SWEEP Command [parameter(s)]
-
- Remarks: SWEEP starts from the current directory. In
- order to use SWEEP to extend the range of a
- command to all the subdirectories on a disk,
- use CD (if necessary) to make the root
- directory your current directory. From the
- root directory, the command
-
- SWEEP DIR
-
- will display the listings, by subdirectory,
- of every non-hidden file on the disk. To
- erase all the .BAK files on a disk you need
- only get into the root directory and issue
- the command
-
- SWEEP DEL *.BAK
-
- SWEEP itself will not accept parameters other
- than its command. Thus, if you are on drive
- C: and wish a directory of all files on drive
- D: to be sent to your printer, you must first
- make drive D: the current drive before you
- issue the command
-
- SWEEP DIR > LPT1
-
- (In this case you would either need a copy of
- SWEEP.COM on drive D: or else drive D: would
- have to be listed on your PATH.)
-
- SWEEP can execute .BAT file commands (and
- even non-DOS commands, such as LOCATE.COM).
- A useful file called CLEAN.BAT might consist
- of the three lines
-
- DEL *.BAK
- DEL *.TMP
- DEL *.OBJ
-
- From the root directory, if you then enter
-
- SWEEP CLEAN
-
- all .BAK, .TMP, and .OBJ files will be erased
- from the disk.
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Requires DOS 2.0 or later.
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