Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them:
ls A*.pdf Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: rm A*.pdf Great, but anyone know of an easier why than the following? 1) Type the second command followed by the selected mask? 2) Go back one in bash "history", [home] to beginning of line replace "ls" with "rm". I'm thinking something like the bash CTRL-R combo? Where you would type rm (second command) and do a key-combo and fill rest of previous line in, or to step it further you could keep scrolling back in history with uparrow-something combo? Thanks! Mark