rm all *.orig files in subdirectories?

From: John Henderson (unjohn_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:18:28 GMT

I'm using Fedora Core 2.

I'm trying to do rm -f -r *.orig to remove all files which end in .orig
from all subdirectories.

It only removes the files ending in *.orig from the top directory.

I thought -r was the recursive option to do subdirectories also?

Thanks for any help, John

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