find . -name .DS_Store -type f

This should do the trick, the asterisk is not needed since the file starts with a dot, also you do not have to quote the name. This is only required if you use the asterisk.

About DS_Store: Very weird.

If I type like I wrote on this page:
find . -name *.DS_Store -type f
I get a list of all .DS_Store files. It works just fine for me on Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.6.

If I instead type like you suggested:
find . -name ‘*.DS_Store’ -type f
I get no results

Regarding Spotlight. What I use it for is to enable searching within a specific DMG file, not all DMG files. In my case I store my Mail data, Adium and Skype data inside an encrypted DMG file and have linked the regular folders to folders within this DMG file. To be able to search emails then in Mail I have to enable Spotlight indexing inside this specific DMG file. So my tip won’t enable Spotlight to index all DMG files, it will just enable indexing of a specific DMG file used for user data.

Cheers
Johan

The correct way to remove .DS_Store files:
%find . -name ‘*.DS_Store’ -type f -exec rm ‘{}’ \;

Tho its not smart to remove .DS_Store files from your Mac OS X file system since you also remove meta data that has been saved to the .DS_Store file.

In case you want to clear out the ._meta_resource files, use the following:
%dotclean

This is a default Mac OS X command for 10.6 which cleans out these files.
Again, keep in mind that you don’t do this on a mounted file system that is NOT HFS+ since this will result again in loss of your meta data.

Another thing, watch out with enabling spotlight for DMG files, lets say you have an install directory containing different installation files that might be quite large (xcode, >2GB) can result into a really slow response of Spotlight and it slows your Mac down a lot while scanning the DMG files.

This is my 50 cent addition to your blog, keep on going