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/bin/rm: Argument list too long

If you have too many files to remove, try this trick:

find . -name '*' | xargs rm -v

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• Suneelm says:

  22.06.10 at 08:14

  Hey thanx man !!!!! it solved my problem .. i was trying to delete some ~1 lacs files of 6.2 TB storage space .. this command worked for me ..

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