Linux commands to create and remove a file
touch and cat commands to create the files
kodingwindow@kw:~$ ls
a.out  KW.class  KW.java  Desktop    Downloads	Pictures  Templates  Weekdays
kw.c   kw.csv	 kw.py	  Documents  Music	Public	  Videos

kodingwindow@kw:~$ touch Ubuntu.txt Fedora.txt
kodingwindow@kw:~$ ls
a.out	  kw.csv   Desktop    Fedora.txt  Public      Videos
kw.c	  KW.java  Documents  Music	  Templates   Weekdays
KW.class  kw.py    Downloads  Pictures	  Ubuntu.txt

kodingwindow@kw:~$ cat > KaliLinux
^C
kodingwindow@kw:~$ ls
a.out	  kw.csv   Desktop    Fedora.txt  Pictures   Ubuntu.txt
kw.c	  KW.java  Documents  KaliLinux   Public     Videos
KW.class  kw.py    Downloads  Music	  Templates  Weekdays

kodingwindow@kw:~$ file Fedora.txt kw.c kw.csv
Fedora.txt: empty
kw.c:       C source, ASCII text
kw.csv:     CSV text
rm command to remove the file(s)
kodingwindow@kw:~$ rm KaliLinux Weekdays
kodingwindow@kw:~$ ls
a.out	  kw.csv   Desktop    Fedora.txt  Public      Videos
kw.c	  KW.java  Documents  Music	  Templates
KW.class  kw.py    Downloads  Pictures	  Ubuntu.txt
rm command with a regular expression to remove multiple files of the same extension
kodingwindow@kw:~$ rm *.txt
kodingwindow@kw:~$ ls -1
a.out
kw.c
KW.class
kw.csv
KW.java
kw.py
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Music
Pictures
Public
Templates
Videos
kodingwindow@kw:~$
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