Do you ever use emacs on linux? In that case you most certainly have noticed that it creates backup files for you (filenames ending in ~).
Backups are great, but sometimes you don't want them cluttering your directories. What if you could remove them with a single command line? Well you can. The following line will remove all files ending in ~ from your current directory and all subdirectories.
$ find ./ -name '*~' -exec rm '{}' \; -print -or -name ".*~" -exec rm {} \; -print
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