When I'm extremely cautious I'll do something like this first: find . -name ".bak" -exec echo rm -fv {} \; That will print out the commands it would* do. If

When I'm extremely cautious I'll do something like this first: find . -name ".bak" -exec echo rm -fv {} \; That will print out the commands it would* do. If I like what I see, I simply run the command again without the "echo".