Using the command line tools to delete multiple messages at once

I've been looking at the command line tools reference page for some time. The
purge task seems to do what I want, but I don't seem to be able to remove
multiple messages this way by specifying them directly using the message
selector option. I can either delete one message, or a range using
wildcards. Is there a way to use this task to delete messages by specifying
a list of full message IDs?