I have this list of files on a Linux server abc log 2012-03-14 abc log 2012-03-27 abc log 2012-03-28 abc log 2012-03-29 abc log 2012-03-30 abc log 2012-04-02 abc log 2012-04-04 abc log 2012-04-05 abc log 2012-04-09 abc log 2012-04-10 I ve been deleting selected log files one by one using the command rm -rf see below rm -rf abc log 2012-03-14 rm -rf abc log 2012-03-27 rm -rf abc log 2012-03-28 Is there another way so that I can delete the selected files at once

How to delete multiple files at once in Bash on Linux?

Bash supports all sorts of wildcards and expansions.

Your exact case would be handled by brace expansion, like so:

$ rm -rf abc.log.2012-03-{14,27,28}

The above would expand to a single command with all three arguments, and be equivalent to typing:

$ rm -rf abc.log.2012-03-14 abc.log.2012-03-27 abc.log.2012-03-28

It's important to note that this expansion is done by the shell, before rm is even loaded.

~ Answered on 2012-05-09 12:46:57