How can I remove the files which is specified with its extention name in single attempt in unix ?(ex: feb*.txt )

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Nisheeth Rai

  • Nov 13th, 2006
 

Take an example.

To delete all files named like rep*.dat

find / -name rep*.dat | xargs rm -f

If you think there may be a directory of same name pattern,

find / -name rep*.dat | xargs rm -rf

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