How to remove all files with a certain extension

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?

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

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

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:57:39 -0400, John Almberg wrote: JA This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... JA JA I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think JA something like the following should work, but I must have something JA wrong, because it doesn't: JA

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

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 .

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

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

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: 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