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How do you delete/remove multiple files ?

What have you tried?
Have you even searched for an answer to this question?

Sorry? Isnt that what this forum is here for?

---------- Post updated at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:21 PM ----------

I've tried rm then several of the file names I want to remove but it doesnt appear to work.

The problem is you're being very vague. i.e. "It doesn't appear to work" is not helpful to as we have no idea what "it" was.

Give some examples or the command(s) you are running, and ls output, so we can see what you are doing.

Take a look at:
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...nt-folder.html

I'd assume it's a syntax thing. Can you put in [ code ] blocks (remove the spaces) what you're entering an either an ls or a ls -al output?

---------- Post updated at 11:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:49 AM ----------

Sorry for double post...but let's say all the files you want to remove end in a .sh format...so, for example:

test.sh
test1.sh
testBAK.sh

You could remove these three files a couple of ways:
(assuming your in the correct working directory)

Code:

rm test*
rm test*sh
rm *sh

The middle would be the best way, in my opinion. The first line would remove anything in the current directory starting with "test" and could potentially remove other files you don't want to remove (i.e. testing.sh). The third line would remove anything ending with "sh" and could, again, remove files you don't mean to touch (i.e. importantfiles.sh).

Things to keep in mind.