add documentation for wildcard (#30612)

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SomeAnonProgrammer
2019-03-21 23:03:43 -04:00
committed by Christopher McCormack
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@ -22,7 +22,17 @@ rm <file name or file path>
rm -R <folder name or folder path>
```
You will be prompted with **'rm: remove regular file hello?'** and will need to respond **'y'** before the file can be deleted. Use this command with caution because 'rm' is a permanent action.
**Delete Files of a certain type**
```bash
rm -R *file_extension
```
- `*` accounts for the part to ignore, `file_extension` is the type to remove
Example:
```bash
rm -R *.txt
```
Removes all file ending with .txt
There are few commonly used arguments: