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