how to delete a file recursively from folders on mac / unix

Question

I want to delete ._DS_Store file from the parent folder and all sub folders. How to delete the .DS_Store file recursively from all folders with single command? (using rm -rf command)

Answer 1

find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -delete

With GNU find at least. Otherwise

find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Or

find parent_dir -name .DS_Store -exec rm -f +