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Argument list too long in Linux

use find

find . -name filename | xargs rm -f

too many files may also cause the argument list too long problem in find. Could use ls and grep instead.

ls |grep YOUR_FILE_PATTERN |xargs rm -f

use xargs

ls | xargs -n 50 rm -rf

xargs could control the batch size of an output. In this case, 50 elements in a batch/group, and pass to rm to process progressively.

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