Here's my program that will easily, recursively delete all files with a certain prefix. I use .# for recoverable delete (if anyone wants my matching rm command, I call "r", let me know). Montana, you'll want to switch file_prefix to '._'. You'll also want to set $not_trevor=1 so it doesn't do some extra features I use with my r.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # v2.1 by Trevor Cordes

# set the first 2 vars below first; # you may need to change the perl, bash path references # recursively deletes files that have a certain prefix (eg .#); # recurses from the current dir if no args given, or from the given # directory arg(s); # dir args cannot have spaces (currently, but would be easy to fix); # should be safe for recursed files/dirs with spaces/newlines in name; # deletions are recursive! so if a dir has the prefix then all sub- # dirs/files will be rm'd too!

# -o days only expunge files r'd more than <days> days ago # -q quiet: don't output normal one-line-per-file status

$file_prefix='.#'; # set to the file prefix you want to delete, BE CAREFUL! $not_trevor =0; # set to 1 if you are not me # and not using this to expunge r'd files # disables the -o option

$ENV{'SHELL'}='/bin/bash';

use Getopt::Std; getopts('qo:',%opts);

$dir='.'; $dir=join(' ',@ARGV) if @ARGV;

$quiet=($opts{'q'}?1:0);

$olderthan=($opts{'o'} and $opts{'o'}>0) ? time-($opts{'o'}*86400) : time+100000; # fudge a time way in the future

print "Expunging <$dir>...\n" if !$quiet;

die if !$file_prefix; # sanity check!

system "find $dir -depth -xdev -name '$file_prefix*' -print0 " .($not_trevor ?'' :"| perl -n0e 'print if !/~(\d+)~\d+~\d+\000?$/ or $1<$olderthan' " ) ."| xargs --no-run-if-empty --null /bin/rm -r ".($quiet?'':'-v');