Shell Programming and Scripting

U can try this command: probably some modifications are required
rm -rf update.000?[1-2]*

that should also do it, although you can leave out the "-" since its only 1, 2

Code:

rm -f update.000[12]*

This cmd does the remove the line <script language> from the file.... Also, I have one doubt, the command has been closed with ">" after the script, but its not opened... I also tried with opening before the script start, but no luck...

sed '/script language/,/scripts>/d' filename

Re: ghostdog74 and jim mcnamara posts. There is a danger that expanding "*" will create an expanded "for" command which is too long for the shell.

A construct for unknown numbers of files and allowing for space characters or awkward characters in filenames. The "if -f" can prevent accidents with filenames containing awkward characters.

Code:

ls -1 update.0001* update.0002* 2>dev/null | while read file
do
    # Only remove the echo if you are happy with what will be deleted
    if [ -f "${file}" ]
    then
         echo rm -f "${file}"
    fi
done

then pass to xargs