Comments on: How to Remove Files with Specific Extension in Linux https://www.ubuntumint.com/remove-files-with-specific-extension-in-linux/ UbuntuMint - Everything About Ubuntu Linux Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Ravi Saive https://www.ubuntumint.com/remove-files-with-specific-extension-in-linux/#comment-12412 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 04:18:31 +0000 https://www.ubuntumint.com/?p=563#comment-12412 In reply to mak.

@Mark,

That’s because the filename contains the brackets () i.e. (1), to delete the filename with brackets check this article at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/98222/deleting-all-files-that-begins-with-parenthesis

]]> By: mak https://www.ubuntumint.com/remove-files-with-specific-extension-in-linux/#comment-12276 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:38:06 +0000 https://www.ubuntumint.com/?p=563#comment-12276 I run the command "rm *(1)*" as I want to delete files from the directory that contain (1) in the filename, but every file gets deleted.

Why?

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