"regtool 1.8" on "cygwin 1.5.10": Recursively remove registry keys

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Systemtechnik wrote:

> >> it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's "not
> >> empty". I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an
> >> "Error (5) access denied". Is this true, or is there a way to remove
> >> whole "trees" from the registry ?
> >
> > AFAICS, regtool has no "recursive" option.  Patches welcome.  See
>
> Maybe i write some kind to "dir-crawler" in perl/shell to do this...

Try "find -depth"...
	Igor
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