How to remove file in linux using regex

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Deleting older files within a date range

Generally compressed log files created by utilities contain a date in the filename. For cleaning such accumulated compressed files we can use rm command with regex.

$ ls

2013-12-23-nginx.tar.gz                2016-04-29-nginx.tar.gz
2013-12-24-nginx.tar.gz                2016-05-21-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-19-nginx.tar.gz                2016-05-22-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-20-nginx.tar.gz                2016-05-23-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-21-nginx.tar.gz                2016-05-24-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-22-nginx.tar.gz                2016-05-25-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-23-nginx.tar.gz                2016-06-11-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-24-nginx.tar.gz                2016-06-12-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-25-nginx.tar.gz                2016-06-13-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-26-nginx.tar.gz                2016-12-24-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-27-nginx.tar.gz                2019-07-20-nginx.tar.gz
2016-04-28-nginx.tar.gz


$ rm 201[3-6]*

How to remove file in linux using regex

Arun Varghese

Deleting older files within a date range

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