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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Deleting millions of files ==<br />
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When you have a file system with 100,000s or more of files, <code>rm</code> will not work. It will eventually come back and say '''bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long''' or some such.<br />
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This command will work:<br />
find . -exec rm {} \;<br />
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[[Category: Linux]]</div>Simon