'Ubuntu terminal removing multiple partial files using wildcard [closed]
This maybe easy on linux users, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to delete multiple files (partial files) using wildcard.
sudo rm logs/archived/remove_me.2022.* or sudo rm logs/archived/remove_me.2022.? seems not to work.
I am getting the error rm: cannot remove 'logs/archived/remove_me.*': No such file or directory
I am currently on /var/lib/tomcat8/ trying to remove these logs inside logs/archived.
I am remove them one by one but there are a lot of files to remove .. (example. from 2020 and there are daily and in partial files).
Example I am inside /var/lib/tomcat8/logs/archived/ and I want to remove all log files starting with remove_me.2021.*
Below are the sample list of files that I want to remove.There are also other files in this directory that should not be removed.
remove_me.2022-03-02.1.log.gz
remove_me.2022-03-02.2.log.gz
remove_me.2022-03-02.3.log.gz
remove_me.2022-03-02.4.log.gz
remove_me.2022-03-02.5.log.gz
remove_me.2022-03-03.1.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.2.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.3.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.4.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.5.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.6.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.7.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.8.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.9.log
remove_me.2022-03-03.10.log
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