How to delete files on the command line with regular expressions?

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00:00 How To Delete Files On The Command Line With Regular Expressions?
00:52 Accepted Answer Score 33
01:10 Answer 2 Score 6
01:18 Answer 3 Score 13
01:32 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 33

In bash you can use:

rm FOO1{3..5}

rm FOO1{3,4,5}

to delete FOO13, FOO14 and FOO15.

Bash expansions brace are documented here.

ANSWER 2

Score 13

For future readers, the find command can also delete files. I settled on this for a similar problem:

find . -type f -regex '...' -delete

but the chosen answer is the simplest anser to this question.

ANSWER 3

Score 6

ls | grep regex | xargs rm