How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski emil at fuse.pl
Fri Jan 2 03:52:38 EST 2015


> This doesn't seem to work because it's a wildcard filename. What is the
> proper way to delete files using wildcards?

You could try glob[1] and then iterate over collected list (it also 
gives you a chance to handle errors like unreadable/not owned by you files).

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html

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Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski *|* http://fuse.pl
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