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Old November 11th, 2004, 09:41 AM
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removing multiple files with same chacterisitic
Hi again,
Is there a command to remove all files beginning with a certain sequence?

eg if i wanted to remove all files in a direcotry beginning with
bov
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Old November 11th, 2004, 11:52 AM
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rm bof*
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rm -rf bof*
-rf = recursiv and forcing
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Old November 12th, 2004, 02:43 AM
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