How to remove all files with a certain extension

[John Almberg]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, 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 {} \;
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Oh, duh... that /dev/null shouldn't be there.

-- John