How to find and delete files using command in Linux

How to use the command line in Linux to perform find/search and delete files.

Find files with a search term (wildcard is *) and remove them.

find . -name "search term" -exec rm -f {} \;

Before running the command verify the results of the find command by running just

find . -name "search term"

Examples:

Find all files having .txt (*.txt) extension in the current directory and remove them:

find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;

Find all files having .txt (*.txt) extension in the current directory and remove them with confirmation:

find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -i {} \;

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