Remove Files Recursively in Linux

Do you ever try rm -r *.bak and wonder why it is not working like it is supposed to? From the man page (man rm), the definition for -r is :

r, -R, --recursive
              remove directories and their contents recursively

So basically -r is for directories and their contents recursively. In other words it only deletes recursively, not search recursively for things to be deleted.

A quick fix is simple :

find -type f -name '*.bak' -print0  | xargs -0 rm