How to remove all files with a certain extension

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 06), John Almberg said:
> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
> 
> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think something
> like the following should work, but I must have something wrong, because
> it doesn't:
> 
> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;

find . -name "*.tar" -delete

Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand them, and use
the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename.

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	Dan Nelson
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