Linux commands to create and remove a file
touch and cat commands to create the files
godarda@gd:~$ ls a.out GD.class GD.java Desktop Downloads Pictures Templates Weekdays gd.c gd.csv gd.py Documents Music Public Videos godarda@gd:~$ touch Ubuntu.txt Fedora.txt godarda@gd:~$ ls a.out gd.csv Desktop Fedora.txt Public Videos gd.c GD.java Documents Music Templates Weekdays GD.class gd.py Downloads Pictures Ubuntu.txt godarda@gd:~$ cat > KaliLinux ^C godarda@gd:~$ ls a.out gd.csv Desktop Fedora.txt Pictures Ubuntu.txt gd.c GD.java Documents KaliLinux Public Videos GD.class gd.py Downloads Music Templates Weekdays godarda@gd:~$ file Fedora.txt gd.c gd.csv Fedora.txt: empty gd.c: C source, ASCII text gd.csv: CSV text
rm command to remove the file(s)
godarda@gd:~$ rm KaliLinux Weekdays godarda@gd:~$ ls a.out gd.csv Desktop Fedora.txt Public Videos gd.c GD.java Documents Music Templates GD.class gd.py Downloads Pictures Ubuntu.txt
rm command with a regular expression to remove multiple files of the same extension
godarda@gd:~$ rm *.txt godarda@gd:~$ ls -1 a.out gd.c GD.class gd.csv GD.java gd.py Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos godarda@gd:~$
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