Deleting from command line

Reaver76 · 09-27-2006, 02:57 PM

Hi everyone! I'm a newbie that is just starting to learn about Linux, so I'll be bothering you with questions like the one I'll ask now...

Say I have files called Testing, Testing1, Testing2, Testing3, and so on. I want to keep the original Testing file but delete the other Testing files with one command. How would I do that?

I thought a command like:

>rm Testing[*]

would work, wouldn't it?

acid_kewpie · 09-27-2006, 03:21 PM

no, that doesn't make sense, and if you were to run the legal version... "rm Testing*" then that would be bad as * can be null too. instead use ? to signify a single character. "rm Testing?" will match anyhting with a single character after the word "Testing"

Reaver76 · 09-27-2006, 04:42 PM

Great! Thanks so much for the reply. I did a

>rm Testing?*

command, and it worked!