help with command line deletion

[Ashley Aitken]

Instead of discussing the finer points of the Unix command line could  
we conjecture how / if it could have been done the Mac way?

I seem to recall the Mac way for deleting such a set of files was to  
do a Finder find (or using Sherlock, now Spotlight) and then select  
all and delete.

Would that have been doable in this case, given the hidden nature of  
the files, given the way Spotlight works in the Finder?

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS I usually can't even remember the name of the xargs command to  
enable me to look up its man pages, and always get the find options  
wrong at least a couple of times ...