Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2886 mails)

[Marcel Broekman <m.broek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 6 February 2002 05:25, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just a basic question. How do I delete multiple files in Linux.
> rm *.* didn't want to delete all the files (not at least those that
> wore "hiiden" .xxxx like). I had to feed one file at the time to get
> them deleted.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - tk
 if you do rm *.* it doesn't remove the .something files because it 
looks only for files that have something.something (characters before 
the dot). if you want to lose the dotfiles just do:

rm .*

see also:  man rm

cheers, Marcel