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.