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Asked: 2026-06-03T23:28:06+00:00

I have setup a cronjob to remove a file that is being generated by

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I have setup a cronjob to remove a file that is being generated by another script each hour.

The file´s name: inc.php?cronUsers

My current command looks like this:

rm -f "/root/inc.php?cronUsers"

The problem is that, when there are more than one file, the file names change like this:

inc.php?cronUsers.1,inc.php?cronUsers.2 and so on..

I am realy new to all of this, so the only lucky guess was to do:

rm -f "/root/inc.php?cronUsers.*"

But this seems not work.

How else could I delete all files that start with inc.php?cronUsers ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    rm -f inc.php\?cronUsers*

    seems to work :

    $ touch "inc.php?cronUsers.1"
$ touch "inc.php?cronUsers.2"
$ touch "inc.php?cronUsers"
$ ls
inc.php?cronUsers  inc.php?cronUsers.1  inc.php?cronUsers.2
$ rm -f inc.php\?cronUsers*
$ ls
<empty> :)

    Regards

    (why did you write your question title as “that starts with *” ?? Did I miss something?)

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