Rm And Dot Files

From: J (skyliner306_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/26/05 

Date: 26 Aug 2005 04:38:57 -0700

Would someone tell me how to delete all files which begin with a "."
recursively from a given directory? The otherwise useful "rm -R" fails
with an error that it cannot delete "." and "..", and subsequently
doesn't bag any of the .files in subdirectories.