CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

SIM Check out the four “Wildcard” sims in the Chapter 15 section of
http://totalsem.com/100x. The two Type! sims plus the Show! and the Click!
will prepare you for any number of performance-based questions CompTIA
throws at you in the 1002 exam.
Deleting Files
To delete files, you use the del (or erase) command in Windows and the rm
command in macOS and Linux. Deleting files is simple—maybe too simple.
As I said before, deleting a file in your GUI gives you the luxury of retrieving
deleted files from the Recycle Bin on those “Oops, I didn’t mean to delete
that” occasions everyone encounters at one time or another. The command
line, however, shows no such mercy to the careless user. It has no function
equivalent to the Recycle Bin or Trash. Once you have erased a file, you can
recover it only by using special recovery utilities (maybe . . . but don’t bet on
it). Again, the rule here is to check twice and delete once.
To delete a single file in Windows, type the del command followed by the
name of the file to delete. To delete the file reportdraft1.docx, for example,
type this:
del reportdraft1.docx
In macOS and Linux, do the same thing but type rm in place of del, like
this:
rm reportdraft1.docx
Although nothing appears on the screen to confirm it, the file is now gone.
To confirm that the reportdraft1.docx file is no longer listed, use the dir or ls
command.
You can use wildcards with the del and rm commands to delete multiple
files. For example, to delete all files with the extension .txt in a folder, you
can type this in macOS/Linux:
rm *.txt
You can place the wildcard anywhere in the name. For example, to delete
all files with the filename “config” in a Windows directory, type del config.*.