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Delete all files whose filenames contain a particular string?

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I changed my wordpress theme. The older one created so much images on server. My new theme doesnt need them, so I want to remove all. How can I do that?

For example:

Default image: 12_angry_men_lone_holdout.jpg

I want to delete:

12_angry_men_lone_holdout-290x166.jpg

12_angry_men_lone_holdout-700x300.jpg 

12_angry_men_lone_holdout-50x50.jpg

Using Digitalocean, Ubuntu 13.10.

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answered 2 Years ago motivengry · Accepted Answer

If they are in the same folder use * wildcard to achieve that:

rm *text*

Where text is string that filename contains.