Re: [orca-list] (Slightly) O.T.: removing backup files.

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> rm -r *bak
>
> would remove all files ending in bak in the current folder and all sub folders.

No, that would remove files and directories in the current directory 
with names ending in 'bak'.

You want find; something like
find -name '*bak' |xargs rm
would do what you want.  Type "man find" to get more of an explanation.