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Subject: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:05:43 -0700
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We have a situation.

We have some ten thousand spool files created by a program that somehow was allowed to run wild for a week, before anybody noticed that it was running wild.

Anybody know of a way to delete a whole lot of spool files, all with the same jobname, in a hurry?

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Alan Campin
Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Charles Wilt
RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , DeLong, Eric
Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Gary Thompson
Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Jeff Young
Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Joe Pluta
RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Jorge Merino
RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Ketzes, Larry
RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Kurt Anderson
Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Luis Rodriguez
RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria , Musselman, Paul

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