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In Windows (with a command prompt open and the current directory is this data folder): del a*.txt

The del command is used to delete files and takes an argument containing the name of the file. Wildcards, such as * (denotes "any number of characters"), are used to take action on any items in the folder that meet the requirements. You can think of a*.txt as meaning "starts with an a followed by any number of characters, and ending with a period and the extension 'txt'."

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