Removing files from directories.

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Hi all,

This is the scenario - I want to remove some files from a directory and not all of them. I've found out that if you use the command ls | xargs rm, it will remove all the files from the directory. The problem is that I dont want to delete all the files. I only want to remove some of them. How can I modify this command or is there another way of say removing some of the files and not all of them for instance - how can I remove all the files that begin with a particular letter. It becomes a bit monotonous if I delete the files one by one as there's quite a lot of files in the directory.

Thanks in advance.

OS. Solaris 10 x86

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You can use find
# find /directory -name 'beginning_of_file*' | xargs rm

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to delete all files whose name start with a

rm a*