Rm to Match Multiple File Extensions
How to Merge These Two Commands Together Rm *. Html Rm *. Xml 3 Answers Simply Rm *. Html *. Xml Also See the Man Pages for Linux (Or macOS) or Try Tldr Which...
How to merge these two commands together
rm *.html
rm *.xml
3 Answers
Simply rm *.html *.xml
Also see the man pages for Linux (or macOS) or try tldr which currently gives this output:
$ tldr rm
rm
Remove files or directories.
- Remove files from arbitrary locations:
rm path/to/file path/to/another/file
- Recursively remove a directory and all its subdirectories:
rm -r path/to/folder
- Forcibly remove a directory, without prompting for confirmation or showing error messages:
rm -rf path/to/folder
- Interactively remove multiple files, with a prompt before every removal:
rm -i file(s)
- Remove files in verbose mode, printing a message for each removed file:
rm -v path/to/folder/*
$
Simply use
rm *.html *.xml
It’s the shell that interprets the wildcard pattern(s) to carry out the filename expansion – not the rm command.
If you experience an error with the accepted answer, when there are no .html files, you could also chain the commands instead like:
rm *.html; rm *.xml
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