How to remove all files with a certain extension

[Julien Cigar]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:57 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> 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 . -type f -name "*.tar" -delete

> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks: John
> 
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