If you have a ton of files in a directory and you need to remove them, but rm says that the "argument list [is] too long", just use find and xargs:
find . -name 'filename*' | xargs rm -vf
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Words of wisdom from a server administratorArgument list too long
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What if the find command says the "Argument list [is] too long"?!