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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Rm command Post 302962905 by Aia on Sunday 20th of December 2015 06:21:14 PM
Old 12-20-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrshdz
Code:
rm -rf *20151120*.dat

correct this? I worked and deleted all the files that begin with the name "20151120" and have extension. dat.
In post #2 I did not want to deviate from what you had already posted, so there was no confusion in what I was trying to point out. Now, I think it would be good to expand a bit more upon what you have experienced, already.

In reality, you only need rm 20151120*.dat, however this might prompt you to confirm for each file it tries to delete. Adding the -f (force) would suppress any prompting and it will ignore if it doesn't find any file matching that pattern.
The -r is intended for directory. It will descend any directory that matches the pattern and it will delete every files in it and the directory afterward. Thus, you do not want to use it unless necessary.
Otherwise it might delete a directory named 20151120.dat or one that matches the pattern.
 

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fmtutil.cnf

fmtutil.cnf(5)							       teTeX							    fmtutil.cnf(5)

NAME

       fmtutil.cnf - configuration file for fmtutil

DESCRIPTION

       The  fmtutil.cnf  file  contains  the  configuration information for fmtutil(8).  Each line contains the name of the format (e.g., ``tex'',
       ``latex'', ``omega''), the name of the engine that is used by that format (e.g., ``tex'', ``etex'', ``omega''),	the  pattern  file  (e.g.,
       language.dat, language.def), and any arguments (name of an .ini file).

       Fields are separated by whitespace and complete lines can be commented out with ``#''.  The ``pattern file'' field cannot be used to define
       a file that is used while building the format.  It tells fmtutil which files (separated by commas) the format creation procedure reads  and
       it  has	an  effect  to the options --showhyphen and --byhyphen.  If the format has no way to customize hyphenation, a ``-'' can be used to
       indicate this.

NOTES

       The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats always load hyphen.tex.  No customization by a pattern file is available for these formats. Therefore, the
       pattern-file field for the tex and amstex is usually indicated to be empty (``-'').

       You  can,  however,  build customized formats on top of plain tex(1) or amstex(1) by using bplain.tex instead of plain.tex (b for the Babel
       system). See, for example, the bplain.ini file for the bplain format).

       etex(1) loads language.def, not language.dat.

       Symbolic links to the correct engines (e.g., bplain -> tex) are generated by the texlinks(8) script.   Remember to run texlinks(8)  if  you
       run fmtutil(8) yourself, rather than using the FORMATS option in texconfig(8).

FILES

       fmtutil.cnf
	      default configuration file

       language.dat
	      hyphenation pattern file

       language.def
	      hyphenation pattern file

       language.dat.lua
	      hyphenation pattern file

SEE ALSO

       amstex(1), etex(1), fmtutil(8), tex(1), texconfig(8), texlinks(8).

       Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>

BUGS

       None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).

AUTHOR

       fmtutil.cnf was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>, and is Copyright 1998, 1999 but released into the public domain.

       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.  It may be used by other distributions with-
       out contacting the author.  Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this  manual  page
       should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

teTeX								   October 2000 						    fmtutil.cnf(5)
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